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Speaker event at Temple Beth Elohim—Amy Dain leads conversation on Massachusetts’ housing crisis
December 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
EVENT: Amy Dain, on discriminatory zoning laws
DATE: Wednesday, December 4
TIME: 7pm
LOCATION: Temple Beth Elohim, 10 Bethel Rd., Wellesley, or Zoom
DESCRIPTION: The Racial Justice Initiative at Temple Beth Elohim will be welcome Amy Dain, an independent consultant in public policy research and writing. Her focus is on urban and suburban planning and housing policy.
The conditions of segregation are unabated today as documented in Amy Dain’s investigative report Exclusionary by Design. Commissioned by The Boston Foundation’s Boston Indicators research center, Dain examines the 100-year history of municipal zoning practices in Massachusetts that resulted in the residential segregation of today. The consequences of these discriminatory zoning laws are unacceptably atrocious: the life expectancy of a Black man living in Roxbury is 10 years less than a White man living in Back Bay. Likewise, inequities are found in educational attainment, access to healthy foods, air quality, and most significantly glaring economic disparities of an ever-increasing racial wealth gap. Truly, zip code is destiny.
Amy Dain will lead this conversation on Massachusetts’ housing crisis. A panel of respondents will describe the costs of these radicalized zoning practices to all of us—Black, White, Brown, Asian alike… and most importantly, what actions we can take in our communities to address these challenges.
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