Name
Housing Justice is Disability, Gender, & Racial Justice: Addressing Economic Inequality, Poverty, & Neighbourhood Politics -LIVE ONLY
Time
9:55 AM - 10:55 AM
Description

During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people in the U.S. have faced job loss, reduced hours, loss of childcare, and risk of imminent eviction or foreclosure - despite a federal eviction moratorium and aid programs to help with mortgage and rent payments. Yet this vast economic crisis is only the tip of the iceberg. Systemic and institutional racism, gender-based oppression, and ableism have shaped centuries of housing policy and real estate law, causing and exacerbating sharp disparities in homeownership, lending, generational wealth building, and access to community resources along racial, disability, and class lines. This talk will explore the ways that these compounded injustices have further entrenched economic inequality and contributed to everyday experiences of marginalization in access to housing, while offering a vision for housing and real estate law that can move us closer to justice. Presented by Lydia X.Z. Brown, Esq., Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network; Adjunct Lecturer/Core Faculty in Disability Studies, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in American Studies, Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Culture Studies, American University Washington, D.C.