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A Path Towards Housing and Social Equity: The Need for Policy Transformation
There’s a need for policy transformation to be able to create thriving neighborhoods, which result from not only providing families with access to affordable...
Race, Wealth, and Homeownership; The Time to Act is Long Overdue
Through two Black women’s stories of racial discrimination in Housing, USI makes a call of accountability to organizations to dismantle the historical racism that...
Helping One Norfolk Resident Find Community
A Norfolk resident, Ms. Hagans, finds the perfect neighborhood to raise her grandson, Ray. Barbara Hagans has been living in the Tidewater Gardens neighborhood...
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Community Spotlight
Solutions focused on reducing violence in communities are frequently influenced by implicit bias and focused on compliance and containment....
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