Public Policy

February 19, 2021

The Black Lives Next Door

Color of Law author Richard Rothstein explains the history of housing discrimination in San Mateo and shares what it will take to dismantle the legacy of racial residential segregation in cities across the country.
February 19, 2021

Investing in Black Liberation: An Update from Community Vision

Community Vision shares how they have applied a racial equity lens to their grantmaking and internal practices and developed a scorecard to measure how well they are doing in their initiatives.
February 19, 2021

Embedding Racial Equity in Housing

Outlines the disparate impact of racist housing policy and COVID-19 on communities of color and offers possible solutions that cities can enact.
February 19, 2021

Roots, Race, and Place

This report outlines the previous overtly and covertly racist housing and land use policies that shaped the Bay Area into what we see today. Researchers tie practices like redlining to the prevelance of subprime mortgages and foreclosures in communities of color that translated to the inequities and segregation of the Bay Area.