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New Heart of Health Equity Episode:
Lupe Arreola of Tenants Together
Check out the latest episode of The  Heart of Health Equity with host Ashlei A. Rodgers, MPH featuring Lupe Arreola, Executive Director of Tenants Together. Hear their candid conversation on how the organization is fighting for tenants rights, the impact of widespread gentrification in the Bay Area, the importance of practicing self-care, and how we all can do our part to address housing insecurity.
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Housing Inequality Reading Recommendations
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in The American City
  • Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. 

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequity in A Divided Nation 

  • From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives.

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein 

  • The American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. 

Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing & Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. 

  • Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them.
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