Conversations about fair housing and place-based work too often lead to a perceived need to defend turf. Reece and Kriesberg got together instead to talk about common ground, using Rooflines as a hub for debate!
A robust debate erupted on Shelterforce in response to Miriam Axel-Lute's article, "The Dangerous Rhetoric of Escaping to Opportunity," with strongly worded opinions flowing from both sides of the mobility and place based debate.
As practitioners who were involved in this vigorous conversation and referenced in the article, we had a series of private discussions about our perspectives and concerns regarding the place vs mobility debate.
Our productive conversations illustrate one of the major challenges in this debate: We spend too little time in quiet, off-the-record dialogue based on mutual respect with a goal of deepening our understanding, and too much time engaged in public debates designed to drive policy agendas based on long-standing organizational agendas...
Read the full story: Housing Equity’s Future: Moving from Debate to Productive Dialogue
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