July: HOUSING & TRANSPORTATION
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Program Day
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 11
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom (see reminder email or YW Boston Connect event page for meeting details)
Housing & Transportation presentation slides
The American Dream (over-the-decades comparative experiential activity)
Objectives
Our objectives are to
- Discuss impact of housing and transportation on socioeconomic well-being of region
- Identify historical and current factors that have led to metro Boston’s current housing and transportation challenges
Pre-work
- Watch and read: GBH, How A Long-Ago Map Created Racial Boundaries That Still Define Boston
- Listen and read: WBUR, MIT Study: Boston Evictions Happening ‘Orders Of Magnitude’ More In Low-Income Neighborhoods
- Read: The Boston Globe, Don’t just fix the infrastructure, let’s rethink our transit policies (PDF)
- Read/skim p. 6-52: The Boston Foundation, The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2021
- Read 1-19, 33-37, skim the rest: MassINC, From Transactional to Transformative: The Case for Equity in Gateway City Transit-Oriented Development
- Organizational data gathering: Housing & Transportation questions
Additional recommended reading and listening
- Reveal, The red line: Racial disparities in lending
- Boston Magazine, How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long?
- The Boston Globe, The ‘good intentions’ program that devastated Boston’s neighborhoods (PDF)
- The Boston Globe, Few families occupy Greater Boston’s multi-bedroom homes, report says (PDF)
- The Boston Globe, Study links crowded housing in Greater Boston’s poorer neighborhoods with spread of COVID-19 (PDF)
- The Boston Globe, Researchers expected ‘outrageously high’ discrimination against Black renters. What they found was worse than imagined (PDF)
- Nonprofit Quarterly, The “Black Tax” on Homeownership
- Literary Hub, America’s Housing Crisis: A Reading List
- Boston Magazine, Nearly everyone in the Boston mayor’s race wants to eliminate some MBTA fares. The question is for whom.
- Mass.gov, Commission on the Future of Transportation
Module 6: Inclusive Communication Skills: Inclusive Meetings
- Watch Module 6 of LeadBoston Online, Inclusive Communication Skills: Inclusive Meetings (16:06).
- Once you’ve finished the video, share your response to the Post & Share question below as a comment to the pinned post in the YW Boston Connect LeadBoston 2021 group page.
Post & Share: How do you define inclusion? What does it look like? How does it feel?
Expert Speakers
Tracy A. Corley, Ph.D., Director of Research and Partnerships, Conservation Law Foundation
Trevor Samios, Vice President, Connected Communities, WinnCompanies
Follow-Up Conversation Information
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 18
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)
Optional Thursday Social Information
Date: Thursday, Aug. 26
Time: 5:05 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)