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Section 2: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “Everything You Need to Know about the Affordable Housing Debate,” Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 2015
    • “Fair Housing Act,” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019
    • “Housing,” National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2020
    • “Housing Needs by State,” National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Low Income Housing Coalition
    • “How the U.S. Government Segregated Chicago,” Al Jazeera, YouTube, 2017
    • “Mapping Segregation,” Matthew Bloch, Amanda Cox, and Tom Giratikanon, The New York Times Company, 2015
    • “Martin Luther King and Fair Housing in Chicago,” Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW Chicago, 2018
    • “Race the House We Live In,” California Newsreel, YouTube, 2003
    • “This Is Home,” Off/Page Project, YouTube, 2014
  • Unit Reader
    • “Affordable Housing: A Debate over Core American Values,” Elijah Cummings, The Afro-American Newspapers Inc., 2018
    • “Disarming the Great Affordable Housing Debate,” Solomon Greene and Margery Austin Turner, The Urban Institute, 2015
    • Excerpt from “Chicago Housing Speech,” Martin Luther King Jr., The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor, 1966
    • Excerpts from “The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration,” Isabel Wilkerson, Smithsonian Enterprises, 2016
    • Excerpts from “Where Should a Poor Family Live?,” Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times Company, 2015
    • “Harlem,” excerpt from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, Estate of Langston Hughes. Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 1994
    • “Redefining the Multifamily Challenge,” Ben Carson, Public Domain, 2018
    • Rental data displays from “The GAP: A Shortage of Affordable Homes,” National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2019
    • “The Civil Rights Law We Ignored,” Walter Mondale, The New York Times Company, 2018
  • Tradebook
    • The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015

Optional

  • Tradebook
    • Excerpts from Act 2 of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry, Random House, 1959
  • Unit Reader
    • “Obama Unveils Stricter Rules about Segregation in Housing,” Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times Company, 2015
    • “Trump Administration Postpones an Obama Fair-Housing Rule,” Emily Badger and John Eligon, The New York Times Company, 2018
  • Digital Access
    • “America’s Tent Cities for the Homeless,” Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 2016
    • “HUD Secretary Ben Carson Lays out His Plans for Affordable Housing and Regulatory Reform,” Jeremiah Jensen, Housing Wire, 2018
    • “I Ain’t Got No Home,” Woody Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Publications, 1961
    • “Woody Guthrie — I Ain’t Got No Home/Old Man Trump by the Missin’ Cousins.,” The Missin’ Cousins, YouTube, 2016