Gautreaux at 40: Race, Class, Housing Mobility, and Neighborhood Revitalization
 
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The Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy
First Annual Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2006

Gautreaux at 40: Race, Class, Housing Mobility, and Neighborhood Revitalization

Our inagural symposium, " Gautreaux at 40: Race, Class, Housing
Mobility, and Neighborhood Revitalization", commemorated the 40th
anniversary of Chicago's Landmark public housing desegregation case.
on Friday, March 3, 2006 at Northwestern University School of Law.

Chicago's Gautreaux public housing racial desegregation litigation was
filed in 1996 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 politics and programs. The
conference examined what we have learned about the impact of housing
mobility and neighborhood revitalization initiatives. What initiatives have
been designed to expand the housing mobility of low-income people?
What has been the impact of these efforts on families who have
participated in them? How effective are the ongoing efforts to replace
distressed public housing with mixed-income communities? The
conference also considered potential strategies for addressing these
questions in the future, with the goal of identifying promising directions
for policymakers, scholars, and citizens alike.

View our Gautreaux Symposium issue.