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Ensuring Equitable Neighborhood Change: Gentrification Pressures on Housing Affordability
AUTHOR: Department of Housing and Urban Development
YEAR: 2016
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This report reviews the recent research on the causes and consequences of gentrification and identifies key steps policymakers can take to foster n
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Creating Inclusive High-Tech Incubators and Accelerators: Strategies to Increase Participation Rates of Women and Minority Entrepreneurs
AUTHOR: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)…
YEAR: 2016
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Many high-tech incubator and accelerator leaders convey that they would like to become more inclusive, but that they are unsure of how to do so eff
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Gentrification and Displacement: An Agenda for Addressing Gentrification and Addressing Displacement
AUTHOR: Gentrification Learning Community
YEAR: 2016
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This report outlines the strategies and solutions to the problems created by gentrification in the Greater Boston area as determined by The Gentrif
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Race to Equity: The State of Black Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Nicole Rodriguez, Colin Jones, and Nancy Wagman,…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report presents a snapshot of how Black communities and other communities of color are doing in terms of education, economic opportunity and health
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The New Now: Working Together for Social Change
AUTHOR: Building Movement Project
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights case studies of how LGBT movements have become intersectional and expanded to advocate for other issues like immigration, police
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Demographics of Wealth: How Age, Education and Race Separate Thrivers from Strugglers in Today’s Economy
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
YEAR: 2015
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Drawing from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, which includes data from over 40,000 families (spanning 1989 to 2013), th
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Architecture of Segregration: Civil Unrest, The Concentration of Poverty and Public Policy
AUTHOR: Paul A. Jargowsky
YEAR: 2015
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Report shows how concentration of poverty has doubled since 2000, especially among black communities, in small and medium sized metros across the c
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Scrimping + Saving: A report on financial access, attitudes and behaviors of low- and moderate-income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
AUTHOR: National CAPACD
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at financial capability and access of low-income Asian American communities in the United States
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#BlackWorkersMatter
AUTHOR: Discount Foundation and Neighborhood Funders Group…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This six section report covers the history of black worker organizing, the black jobs crisis and recommendations to improve the economic prosperity
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Low-Income Working Families: Racial/Ethnic Divide
AUTHOR: The Working Poor Families Project
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at the growing economic divide between America's major racial groups, showing that famillies headed by racial and ethnic minorities ar
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The Color of Wealth in Boston
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at wealth among Boston's racial and ethnic communities to show how wealth inequality disproportionately affects Boston's different sub
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The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters
AUTHOR: ISP, Brandeis University and Demos
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report provides a systemic analysis of the public policies that offer the most potential for reducing the racial wealth gap
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Diversity, Inequality and Microsegregation: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Racially and Economically Diverse Community
AUTHOR: Laura M. Tach, Cornell University
YEAR: 2014
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Study uses data from Boston's South End to demonstrate that communities which seem externally diverse can still face segregation and discrimination
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Advancing Human Rights: A Status Report on Human Rights in the United States
AUTHOR: U.S. Human Rights Network
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report provides an update on the status of human rights in the United States, from both policy and organizing standpoints
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Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty-not gentrification-is our biggest urban challenge
AUTHOR: Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi, City Observatory…
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This paper examines population change in America's poorest neighborhoods over the past four decades.
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The Equity Solution: Racial Inclusion is Key to Growing a Strong Economy
AUTHOR: Sarah Treuhaft, Justin Scoggins and Jennifer Tran,…
YEAR: 2014
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This research report demonstrates how racial equity is not only a moral imperative, but an economic one, showing the economic losses that America h
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Transformative Justice: A Curriculum Guide
AUTHOR: Project NIA
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
Our goal is to raise public awareness about transformative justice and to think critically about our practice of mass incarceration.
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Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities
AUTHOR: United States Environmental Protection Agency
YEAR: 2013
DESCRIPTION:
Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development.
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Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices
AUTHOR: Brooking Institution Center for Urban and Metropolitan…
YEAR: 2001
DESCRIPTION:
This paper reviews the history, perceptions and manifestations of gentrification in cities across the United States.
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Poverty and Race Through a Belongingness Lens
AUTHOR: John A. Powell, Northwest Area Foundation
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This paper is about how to address poverty in the United States.
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