Capstones
Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change
Graduation Date
Fall 12-13-2020
Grading Professor
Peter Beinart
Subject Concentration
Arts & Culture
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
Affordable housing is an issue that plagues 10’s of millions of Americans in the United States.
In Connecticut, decades of predatory zoning laws that differ from city to city and a broken public housing system has created a state with concentrated pockets of wealth and poverty that disproportionately affects people of color. Connecticut has an opportunity to change its decidedly unliberal policies by taking notes from Japan’s Zoning laws, that enable mixed-income families to live side by side, and activists like Connecticut’s very own Ned Coll, who fought for free and open beaches in the state in the '60's and '70s.
https://ash-rodriguez.medium.com/connecticuts-liberal-image-hides-a-history-of-systematic-housing-inequality-it-s-time-for-a-c2640e3dee53
Recommended Citation
Rodriguez, Ashley, "Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/460