1. Community, Race and Leadership Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities 2008 Special Conference Session john a. powell Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity & Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Moritz College of Law March 30, 2008

3. Race and Class An important intersection

17. Individual vs. Collective Action

20. Low Synergy: Neighborhoods and Schools Lower Educational Outcomes for Urban School Districts Increased Flight of Affluent Families from Urban Areas Neighborhood (Housing) Segregation School Segregation (Economic)

21. Economic Segregation and Racial Segregation in Public Schools: Cleveland, OH & Akron, OH High poverty schools (Red and Yellow) are concentrated in African American neighborhoods (Areas in Gray)

29. Regional Equity / Communities of Opportunity

31. Capital Market ‘Credit crunch’ Affected neighborhoods are being reduced to ‘ghost towns’ Reduced spending and retail flight Families lose their homes, wealth and safety Banks, police and courts saddled with foreclosures SUBPRIME LENDING: We didn’t care about the canary...

42. Housing is a critical intervention point into the complex web of opportunity. Housing is a component of a larger set of interrelated structures that are both affected by housing and have impacts on the attainment of safe, stable housing. Fiscal Policies Housing Childcare Employment Education Health Transportation Effective Participation

45. Sprawl, Inequity, and Education 50 years after the Brown Decision, America’s schools have re-segregated into affluent white districts and poor under-funded African American and Hispanic districts Structural Inequality Produces Dysfunctional Schools Institutional Arrangements

52. The Strategic Impact of Funding

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57. Appendix Obama’s Speech on Race March 18, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA