Op-Ed: AU Trustee Linked to Racial and Economic Inequality in D.C.
(02/10/15 9:09pm)
It’s a story we are told about every major city across America: reinvestment, revitalization, development. From Washington D.C. to San Francisco to New York we can see the impacts of these revitalization projects first-hand: a beautiful new ballpark for the Washington Nationals along the Anacostia River, the new luxury housing complex on Minnesota Avenue, the “hipster” paradigm in Brooklyn. But along with these new development projects comes an often untold story, one of displacement, segregation and inequality.