Discussion Issues: Concurrent Session on Housing and Land
Michelle Adams and Martha Mahoney

Nancy Denton's work on residential segregation and Melvin Oliver's work on wealth and inequality provides insightful critiques, interesting questions and compelling challenges for the future in the areas of housing and property. In a profoundly racially segregated society that is also stratified by income and wealth, important questions are raised as we consider whether it is possible to achieve a residentially integrated society with some semblance of meaningful equality.

With Denton's and Oliver's work providing the intellectual context, this concurrent session on housing and property will explore whether it is possible to achieve integration and equality in our society; and what methods might be used to accomplish these dual ends. Our discussion will explore a variety of topics, including: the vital importance of affordable housing; the impact of landlord-tenant sexual harassment on women; the results of environmental racism on neighborhood development; and the arguments for and against community reinvestment strategies designed to achieve an integrated living environment.