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Strategies To Ensure A Right To Housing And Equitable Community Development In A Diverse City, Michael P. Johnson Jr. Apr 2018

Strategies To Ensure A Right To Housing And Equitable Community Development In A Diverse City, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

The city of Boston is well-known as a hub of higher education, technology and innovation. It is also known as a very expensive city to live, one that is historically unfriendly to racial and ethnic minorities, especially African-Americans, highly segregated, and highly unequal according to measures of income and wealth. The office of the Mayor of Boston has sponsored a project course with undergraduate students at University of Massachusetts Boston with the goal of identifying policy and planning innovations to stabilize and revitalize Boston’s neighborhoods by increasing access to decent, affordable housing for all, with a focus on reducing eviction …

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How Can Diversity Management Make A Difference? Massachusetts' Commonwealth Compact Initiative, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Georgianna Melendez Apr 2012

How Can Diversity Management Make A Difference? Massachusetts' Commonwealth Compact Initiative, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Georgianna Melendez

Michael P. Johnson

Commonwealth Compact is a unique membership-driven diversity initiative. Commonwealth Compact combines a practitioner focus on best practices and systems change and an academic grounding in theory, data and analysis. We argue that evaluating the social benefits and costs of programs like Commonwealth Compact is difficult but essential, and provide a conceptual framework for doing so.

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