Episode 31: The Racialized Harm of Mixed-Income Policy and Pathways for Racial Justice

This episode, recorded in early Fall 2024, completes our 10th Anniversary podcast series focused on revisiting some of our favorite reports from our first decade. In this episode, we took a lookback at our very first podcast episode which focused on the Future of Mixed-Income Policy and Practice, in which we introduced our edited volume What Works to Promote Inclusive and Equitable Mixed-Income Communities. My guest for that episode was the Research Director at our center, Dr. Amy Khare. Amy has been on leave from our center working on a book and she returned for this lookback episode with me. As a bonus, we also discuss a preview of her recently completed book manuscriptPoverty, Power and Profit: How Chicago’s Public Housing Reforms Reproduced Racial Inequality.

Amy’s career has combined social work, community development and racial justice. She was formally trained as a social worker at the University of Kansas and has her Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Chicago. She has had professional roles working for community development corporations, real estate development agencies, social service agencies, policy institutes and university research centers. Amy has been a colleague and friend for almost 20 years and has done so much to shape our work at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities.

Prioritizing Inclusion and Equity in the Next Generation of Mixed-Income Communities

What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities

The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities