Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityGautreaux at 40
"Gautreaux at 40: Race, Class, Housing Mobility, and Neighborhood Revitalization"
Commemorating
the 40th Anniversary of Chicago's Landmark Public Housing Desegregation Case
Presented by Northwestern University School of Law and the Institute for Policy Research
Friday, March 3, 2006
Thorne Auditorium
Northwestern University School of Law
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Chicago's Gautreaux public housing desegregation litigation was filed in 1966 and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1976. Four decades after Gautreaux's beginning, the case and its judicial, legislative, and administrative progeny continue to influence local and national housing and redevelopment policies and programs. Leading experts from academia, the private sector, and government will gather at Northwestern Law to examine what we have learned about the impact of housing mobility and neighborhood revitalization initiatives. Conference participants will discuss policies and strategies facilitating the movement of poor people from public housing and the inner city to areas with greater opportunities, as well as the evolving revitalization efforts that have been changing the landscapes of the nation's neighborhoods.
