Abstract
Chapter contributors offer historical and contemporary perspectives on equitable communities, the affordable housing crisis, and the public policies that can generate needed change. A Brandeis University professor describes disparities across the nation’s neighborhoods and presents findings from the Child Opportunity Index. A senior fellow at Urban Institute addresses the risks and benefits of zoning and land use reforms, while fair housing advocate Former president of the Inclusive Communities Project describes ways to ensure that people have genuine housing choice. Executive director of come dream. come build. draws on his experience as a nonprofit housing developer to explain how low-income people on the southern U.S. border can build home equity. Executive director of the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation describes this enterprise, which combines healthcare, community development (including affordable home ownership), arts and culture, and innovation and technology to renew and strengthen a Jackson, Miss., community.