“Most black and Latino students today are segregated by both race and class, a combination that wreaks havoc on the learning environment. Research stretching back 50 years shows that the socioeconomic makeup of a school can play a larger role… Continue Reading →
Gentrification is well known for be a force disruptive to both poor and black communities through its abrupt displacement of people, uprooting od communities, and destruction of culture. I believe that as New Yorkers we are all but too familiar… Continue Reading →
The article I chose to focus this response on was “Rent Stabilization in New York City” from the Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy”. Reading through this, I felt as though the secret purpose of this brief article… Continue Reading →
Coates: Hello Mr. Williamson. Please allow me to skip over any pleasantries and directly address the final claim of your paper. That “The people to whom reparations were owed are long dead; our duty is to the living, and to… Continue Reading →
“Again and again, attempts to create integrated neighborhoods have foundered in the face of vehement opposition from homeowners.” “People say integration has failed,” said Julian, an assistant secretary for fair housing during the Clinton administration. “It hasn’t failed because… Continue Reading →
“It turns out that the very architectural traits that conventional wisdom said made tower-in-the-park projects like Pruitt-Igoe inhumane actually make these buildings ideal for retirees” ~ Michael Kimmelman, “Towers of Dreams: One Ended in Nightmare, New York Times, January 26, 2012 … Continue Reading →
This blog post in response to the chapter of “The Suburbanization of the United States” brought up a point which peaked my interest in such a way that I had to physically stop reading and think. I find it mind-blowing… Continue Reading →
“Why did they go? What were they looking for? How did they get the courage to leave all they ever knew for a place they had never seen…? Was it a braver thing to stay, or was it braver to… Continue Reading →
“The New York City Department of Education had announced the closure [of Jamaica High School]… citing persistent violence and a graduation rate of around fifty percent. Accordingly, the department had begun to ‘co-locate’ four newly created ‘small schools’ in the… Continue Reading →
“It is sufficient, at this point, to say that if we are to maintain a city society that can diagnose and keep abreast of deeper social problems, the starting point must be, in any case, to strengthen whatever workable forces… Continue Reading →
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