Anchor Richmond Report: Community Opportunities & Anchor Strategies

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john powell Bioneers 2014 presentation - Beloved Community

The challenge we face today: the fear of the Other. How can we structure society to acknowledge our deep connection? - john powell #Bioneers14 (from Twitter) Haas Institute Director john powell spoke to a crowd of over 1,500 people at the annual...

The Black Record: Why we don't know how often police kill

In Killing Them Softly, comedian Dave Chappelle explained how fearful he was to call the police when someone broke into his house. Now why would someone in a free country like America be afraid to call the police to their own home if they were the...

Where Credit Is Due

Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this foreclosure and lending crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over.

America's Growing Inequality

The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to present.

Racial Formation in the United States (Third Edition)

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant

From Foreclosure to Fair Lending

Haas Institute Director john a. powell contributed the twelfth chapter, "Housing, Race, and Opportunity," on how spatial formation impacts racial formation. - See more at: http://test-haas-inst.pantheon.io/foreclosure-fair-lending#sthash.LQCkS…

Homeownership Built to Last

Haas Institute Director john a. powell contributed to the first chapter, "Homeownership, Wealth, and the Production of Racialized Space."

Cities must take action to stem local crises

Over the past year, there have been widespread media reports of a national housing recovery. Hard hit cities like Detroit, devastated by the foreclosure crisis, are frequently mentioned as leaders in rising home prices. But don’t tell that to the...

Six policies to reduce economic inequality

Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States. Haas Institute Director john a. powell discusses why these policies will work in slowing the growth in inequality.