suburbs

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  1/19/2023
  

  Biden Administration Plans Action on Fair Housing

  State and local governments are required under the Fair Housing Act to examine and act to eliminate patterns of discrimination in housing within their boundaries. The federal purse has seldom been used as leverage to ensure they comply. 

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• SOURCE: New York Almanack
  7/6/2021
  

  How New York’s Suburbs Got So Segregated

  by Alan J. Singer

  The builders of Long Island's mass postwar suburbs chose not to challenge existing patterns of segregation, with consequences for communities and individuals today. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  11/17/2020
  

  How Suburbs Swung the 2020 Election

  by Richard Florida, Marie Patino and Rachel Dottle

  The noted urban theorist points out that assumptions about suburban voters haven't kept up with the changing demographic realities of America's suburbs, which house a majority of the population and differ from each other as much as they do from central cities. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  This Majority-Black D.C. Suburb Instituted Police Reforms Years Ago. It’s Trying Again.

  Prince George's County, east of Washington, DC, became one of the country's biggest majority-Black suburban areas in the 1990s. Then the county police department was subject to a federal consent decree over use of force policies. Today, the county is working proactively to respond to community pressures for further reform.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/9/2020
  

  Trump and the Suburbs: Is He Out of Tune with America's Increasingly Diverse Voters?

  Demographers and political strategists say Trump is promoting a vision of America’s suburbs with aproned housewives, leafy cul-de-sacs and picket fences that no longer exists.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/7/2020
  

  A New Data Analysis Can Answer the Question "Do I Live in the Suburbs?"

  The U.S. hasn’t had a formal definition for what constitutes a suburb. A new data analysis comes closer to defining America’s most popular neighborhood type. 

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• 2/24/19
  

  Levittown, PA and The “Northern Promised Land That Wasn't”

  by Jasmine Torres and Alan Singer

  Levittown, Pennsylvania violently errupted when William and Daisy Myers moved into the suburban town in 1957. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-9-18
  

  2 historians say the Dems are making a mistake trying to turn the suburbs blue

  by Lily Geismer and Matthew D. Lassiter

  In an op-ed in the NYT Lily Geismer and Matthew Lassiter argue that the compromises needed to win over the suburbs are undermining the progressive agenda.

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• Very Far from Heaven in 1957 Connecticut

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Far From Heaven Playwrights Horizon 416 W. 42nd Street New York, N.Y.Fans of the 2002 movie Far from Heaven will flock to the play version of the story, which just opened at Playwrights Horizon in New York. This time the work is a stage musical, not a drama, but the play has much of the same punch as the movie. It is emotional, troubling story of the underbelly of life in quiet Connecticut, in 1957 America, just before the Civil Rights movement gained steam and long before the gay rights movement caught fire.

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• How Did Rob Ford Get Elected Mayor of Toronto, Anyway?

  by Bert S. Hall

  Credit: Wiki CommonsNow that allegations that Toronto mayor Rob Ford was videoed smoked crack in his drug dealer’s apartment have propelled him into headlines around the globe (though sadly the video, which was being offered to the highest bidder by his dealer, has for the moment disappeared), it seems an apropos moment to take a look back at Ford's storied career.