Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging

The Institute’s Notes on A Cultural Strategy report outlines a cultural strategy for belonging that centers the leadership, voices, storytelling, practices, and knowledge of people and communities who are marginalized in our society.

john a. powell on Racial Inequity and Economic Justice in Urban Planning

On October 22, 2019, Professor powell gave the 2019 Charles Causier Memorial Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Professor powell's keynote focused on racial equity and economic justice in urban...

Putting Integration on the Agenda

On October 18, 2019, Stephen Menendian and Richard Rothstein published a review of a landmark new book on racial residential segregation in the United States, examining the policy options to advance the goal of integration. Published in the American...

Blog: Disparate Impact Liability is the Best Remedy for Structural Racism

In 1968, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the nation’s first open housing law. This critical piece of legislation not only prohibited racial discrimination in housing, but sought to reverse decades of federal, state, and local policies that...

Video: Bill Mckibben & john a. powell on "Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future"

On October 18 author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and Haas Institute Director john a. powell came together at UC Berkeley for a conversation on the “Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future.” The event was moderated by...

Video: Ruha Benjamin on "The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination"

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this October 17 talk at UC...

Video: Lawrence Lanahan in conversation with john a. powell on segregation and fair housing

Baltimore journalist Lawrence Lanahan spoke at UC Berkeley on Monday, October 14 about his new book, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide.

Video: "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" with Ian Haney Lopez

On Friday, October 11, Berkeley Law Professor Ian Haney Lopez presented on his new book, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America, which offers a powerful, original, and hopeful strategy for defeating the right’s...

Young Voters, Inequality, and Identity

Despite some recent progress, most mainstream civic engagement and political outreach efforts continue to marginalize young voters in choices about strategy and resource allocation. Depending on the aims or “side” of the outreach campaign, this can...

Roots, Race, & Place

To grasp what it will take to undo racial inequality in housing, we must first understand how it was established and perpetuated. In this newly released report, we trace the roots of the region’s racial exclusion in housing and find that racism reinvents itself, proving to be dynamic, generative, and fluid, yet also remarkably durable and entrenched.

Consequences of Islamophobia on Civil Liberties and Rights in the United States

This report was submitted on October 1, 2019 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in regards to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States of America, 36th Session.

john a. powell Keynote at Detroit’s Water Equity Summit

Haas Institute Director john a. powell and Wendy Ake, Director of the Just Public Finance Program presented their work at the Detroit Water Equity Summit in September, 2019. The keynote and breakout session emphasized the ways access to public...

Blog: Tools for Building Our Narrative Infrastructure: Curriculums for Training and Popular Education

Building a powerful progressive infrastructure in California involves aligning various types of organizations and networks around a common set of values, a shared analysis and vision, and a strategic narrative.

Measuring Water and Sewer Service Affordability

Ann Arbor Water Tower. Photo by Dwight Burdette Executive Summary The Context of Water Affordability In the last few years, increased attention has been paid to rising costs for water and wastewater services, including the need to upgrade and replace...

Identity Politics: Friend or Foe?

The term “identity politics” was first coined by Black feminist Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective in 1974. Identity politics originated from the need to reshape movements that had until then prioritized the monotony of sameness over the...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

Blog: Gender, Goosebumps, Grace, and Grieving

Julia McKeown's tattoo inspired by the poetry of Andrea Gibson. “When I left my body I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” From Love Letter From the...