Housing Policy Key to Freddie Gray’s Baltimore—and the City’s Future

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Housing Policy Key to Freddie Gray’s Baltimore—and the City’s Future

Housing Policy Key to Freddie Gray’s Baltimore—and the City’s Future

June 8, 2015 | Rooflines

The lack of opportunity in Gray’s neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester and others like it is not the natural order of things, but rather the result of policies that perpetuate segregation, concentrated poverty, and inequality. [...]

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