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- In this podcast, Darrell Owens and Stephen Menendian offer insights into the debate around integrating neighborhoods vs. investing in neighborhoods where people of color already live.
- Owens highlights the difference between neighborhoods and communities to explain why integration is a necessary solution.
- Learn about the history of redlining and Black homelessness.
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In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Darrell Owens, a policy analyst at California Yimby, and a writer on Substack who focuses on housing, planning, displacement, mobility and other issues. He just authored a new piece called Segregation or Integration which combines data on housing policy with his personal experiences growing up in Berkeley living in different neighborhoods. And we also have with us Stephen Menendian who will give us his thoughts on the article. Stephen is our assistant director here at OBI who has published extensively on issues related to segregation and housing.
Read the full article about integration at Othering & Belonging Institute.