The Inextricable Tie Between Housing and Education: Exploring Connections and Possibilities

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Housing and education are inextricably tied. Access to both are highly stratified by race and social class, with laws and policies creating and maintaining residential (and thus) school segregation and inequality. This session brings together experts in the areas of housing and education across the disciplines of sociology, urban planning, economics, law and education to examine the historical linkages between housing and educational opportunity and to establish future directions for study and intervention aimed at producing equitable public education. Of central consideration are the key policy levers for building a mutually supportive intervention cycle that creates access to housing and high-quality education.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chair

• Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Spencer Foundation

Papers

• The Relationship Between Housing, Neighborhood Change, and Education - Malo Hutson

• Exploring Connections Between Housing and Educational Inequality - Kendra Bischoff, Cornell University

• Housing Inequality as an Intractable Site of Racial Stratification - Jacob W Faber, New York University

• Compounding Discrimination: Black Housing and School Choice in the Contemporary United States - R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University

Discussants

• Thomas M Shapiro, Brandeis University

• john powell, University of California - Berkeley

• Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University