Resources to Learn More about Housing Segregation and Opportunity

We have compiled some great resources for individuals interested in learning more about housing segregation and how it impacts opportunity, both in the District and across the country. We will be continually adding to this resource page, so if you know of important resources we did not yet include, please tell us here. 

Read: 

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein

• Mapping Segregation in DC, Prologue DC, https://mappingsegregationdc.org 

• The Battle of Fort Reno, Neil Flanagan, Greater Greater Washington, https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20981322/the-battle-of-fort-reno

• Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, Chris Myers and George Derek Musgrove 

Watch: 

• Segregated by Design, Mark Lopez and Richard Rothstein, https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/

• Housing Segregation In Everything, National Public Radio (NPR), https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/04/11/video-housing-segregation-everything

• 50 Years Since the Fair Housing Act, Segregation Persists, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), https://www.pbs.org/video/50-years-fair-housing-act-segregation-persists-conpkk/

• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein and Ta-Nehisi Coates, C-Span, https://www.c-span.org/video/?428341-1/the-color-law

Listen: 

• The Color of Law, Gov Love: https://elgl.org/podcast-the-color-of-law-with-richard-rothstein/

• Neighborhoods, Economic Mobility, and Housing Opportunity, Opportunity Starts at Home Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-551236523/episode-9-neighborhoods-economic-mobility-and-housing-policy-w-david-williams

• Good Housing is Good Health, Opportunity Starts at Home Podcast, https://soundcloud.com/user-551236523/episode-1-dr-megan-sandel

• In the Thick: The Legacy of Redlining, Stitcher Podcast, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/in-the-thick/e/58884945

• Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Rippling Effects of Redlining and Segregation, Adam Ruins Everything, https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adam-ruins-everything/adam-ruins-everything-episode-36-nikole-hannah-jones-rippling-effects-redlinin

Interact:

• The Opportunity Atlas, Opportunity Insights, https://www.opportunityatlas.org/