Housing Inequity: Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?
Dan Immergluck weighs in a recent New York Times article in The Upshot. Joined by scholars from UGA, Duke, Emory, Ohio State and the Brookings Institute, the article calls on the expertise of housing scholars, including Georgia State’s own Dr. Dan Immergluck. The issue?: addressing the dilemma of the racial wealth gap with a conservative Supreme Court. Housing policies and developments have historically been organized around racial politics. In this article, Dr. Immergluck shares his belief that there is a way to track wealth within home ownership programs, calling for down-payment assistance programs for low wealth households. This data collection could help prevent better housing inequity in the future, inform policy, and address discrimination that contributes to poverty in the US.