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Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc

By The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities

Bending The Arc explores the everyday work of creating inclusive, equitable and racially just communities. This podcast spotlights bold thinking and action by creative, passionate, experienced thinkers and actors from cities and communities around the US and Canada. Join us to learn about strategies to make communities diverse, vibrant places of well-being and opportunity.

Bending the Arc is produced by the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and co-hosted by Dr. Mark Joseph and Dr. Amy Khare.
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Episode 18: Urban Strategies Inc. Series Episode 3: The Day-to-Day Work of Advancing Housing and Economic Justice
Aug 29, 202301:07:17
Episode 17: Urban Strategies Inc. Series Episode 2: How Can We Achieve the Transformative Impact of Fair Housing?
Aug 23, 202301:08:46
Episode 16: Urban Strategies Inc. Series Episode 1: Origin Story
Jul 21, 202339:29
Episode 15: Spotlight on the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities
Jul 21, 202301:04:55
Episode 14: Dr. Ed Goetz

Episode 14: Dr. Ed Goetz

In this episode we talk with Dr. Ed Goetz, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and a faculty member at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Ed co-authored an essay for the What Works volume with Anthony Damiano and Rashad Williams. Their critique is focused on why promoting economic advancement for low-income African Americans and other people of color often means having to leave their neighborhood and move to a “opportunity neighborhood.” They argue against a dominant focus on resident mobility to address segregation and marginalization and they advocate for a community development focus which would prioritize enabling low-income families of color to thrive in place.

Ed is the author of four books: The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities, New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy, Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America, and Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy. Ed has served on the board of directors of nonprofit housing agencies in the Twin Cities, and on several regional commissions related to affordable housing and development. Early in his career, he worked at the Mayor's Office of Housing and Economic Development in San Francisco and for several nonprofit community developers in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Conversations with Ed are always lively and thought-provoking and this one is no exception. I

National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities

What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Communities Volume Website

Ed Goetz, Anthony Damiano, Rashad Williams.2020. Changing the Narrative and Playbook on Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Equity in Place - The Alliance Advancing Regional Equity

Dec 20, 202201:02:10
Episode 13: Matthew Martin and LC Johnson

Episode 13: Matthew Martin and LC Johnson

This episode is the first time we’ve explored in-depth the inner workings of one neighborhood as it transitions to a more socially and economically mixed community. Our guests, Matthew Martin and LC Johnson, are residents and change agents in Weinland Park in Columbus Ohio, a neighborhood that has been on a mixed-income journey for the last 20 years. Weinland Park is experiencing a complete revitalization from decades of neglect and disinvestment to now being one of the most intentionally cultivated mixed-income neighborhoods in the country. Matt Martin is the Director of Community Research at the Columbus Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Matt was a Senior Researcher at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. Matt has a Masters of City and Regional Planning from Ohio State, and a Bachelor of Science in Urban Affairs from Wright State University. Along with his co-authors Kip Holley and Steve Sterrett, he contributed an essay on Weinland Park to our What Works edited volume on inclusive and equitable community building. LC Johnson is the visionary and social entrepreneur behind Zora’s House, a coworking space and leadership incubator based in Weinland Park that centers the creativity, leadership, and activism of women and non-binary people of color. Most recently, LC served as the Local Director of Community Entrepreneurship for Forward Cities in the Columbus area. LC has a B.A. in Women's Studies and Sociology from Duke University.

National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities

What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Communities Volume Website

Kip Holley.Matthew Martin.Stephen Sterrett.2020. Weinland Park, Columbus, Ohio: Building Community as a Neighborhood Transitions to Mixed-Income

Zora’s House Website

Nov 30, 202201:18:59
Episode 12: Bethany Friel
Nov 23, 202201:07:53
Episode 11: Tony Pickett
Nov 07, 202201:02:05
Episode 10: Dr. Bryan Grady and Carlie Boos

Episode 10: Dr. Bryan Grady and Carlie Boos

In this episode we talk with Dr. Bryan Grady and Carlie Boos on the topic of how state finance agencies can play a more innovative role in promoting mixed-income housing and mixed-income communities. Many of us have never thought much about the wide latitude and extensive tools that state housing finance agencies have to shape affordable housing policy and investment. Bryan and Carlie’s incredibly informative and compelling essay makes a strong argument that there are existing resources at the state level that could be used much more effectively and creatively. Both Bryan and Carlie have rich experience in housing policy and as you’ll hear, they worked closely together to help advance some innovative strategies when they both worked at the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, Bryan in a research role and Carlie in a policy design and implementation role. Bryan currently serves as the Labor Market Information Director for the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce. Prior to that, he was Chief Research Officer at the South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority for three years. Carlie is currently the Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio. Prior to that she served as Community & Economic Development Counsel at the Legal Aid Society of Columbus.

National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities

What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Communities Volume Website

Bryan Grady.Carlie Boos.2020.Qualified Allocation Plans as an Instrument for Mixed-Income Placemaking

National Council of State Housing Agencies

Jun 03, 202201:00:24
Episode 9: Dr. JaNay Queen Nazaire
Apr 04, 202257:07
Episode 8: Dr. Tiffany Manuel
Jul 16, 202152:54
Episode 7: Dr. Akira Drake Rodriguez
Mar 16, 202155:34
Episode 6: Frankie Blackburn and Bill Traynor
Mar 01, 202158:59
Episode 5: Salin Geevarghese
Jan 05, 202101:04:24
Episode 4: Dr. Clinton Boyd. Jr.
Nov 23, 202001:03:39
Episode 3: Hans Buder
Oct 23, 202052:11
Episode 2: Ben Metcalf
Oct 22, 202040:28
Episode 1: Dr. Amy Khare
Sep 28, 202042:56
Bending the Arc Trailer

Bending the Arc Trailer

Bending The Arc explores the everyday work of creating inclusive, equitable and racially just communities. This podcast spotlights bold thinking and action by creative, passionate, experienced thinkers and actors from cities and communities around the US and Canada.

Sep 28, 202002:33