access the map: “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America” : https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/#maps
Access the map: “Renewing Inequality: Family Displacements through Urban Renewal (1950-1966)
and read “The People and the Program” (check out the short videos)
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/#maps
Access the map on housing for extremely low income (ELI) renters
https://apps.urban.org/features/rental-housing-crisis-map/
Find Dorchester (Massachussets). Then, find the location of your community partner (Chestnut Hill, Mass).
Write a 3-4 page reflection, noting how Dorchester and your community partner’s location is situated with regard to redlining, urban renewal, and availability of housing for low-income renters. (Use sources at the bottom to relate to these elements)
Please use proper citations when you quote or paraphrase a text.
Please write your responses coherently, and articulate, develop, and organize your thoughts clearly and with purpose in response to the assignments. Do not let your writing itself be an impediment (carelessness in writing also reflects a bad faith effort).
Use MLA format
In your response, it is essential that you evidence thoughtful and probing engagement with the module material. While you do not need to quote every text or video that you read or watch for a module, nevertheless you need to demonstrate in your written response that you have been patient with and attentive to the various dimensions of an issue that a module content is teaching, and that you are taking the assignment seriously and giving it the due attention, care, thoughtfulness, and time it deserves.
Module Sources (Please use only these sources):
https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/
https://vimeo.com/133506632
https://evictionlab.org/why-eviction-matters/#videoCarousel
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/scarlet-e-unmasking-americas-eviction-crisis
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/how-the-bulldozer-became-an-urban-block-buster