Reflections on Fair Housing Tim Iglesias USF School of Law
Overview v What are They Saying? v Perspective on Evaluations v New Ideas? v Things to Consider
Why Bother? v Improve our work? v Get more funding? v Find a better perspective?
What are they saying? The Law
What are they saying? Minds & Hearts
What are they saying? Minds & Hearts
What are they saying? Minds & Hearts
What are they saying Conduct
What are they saying? Conduct
Major Themes v v Enforcement Law Political Will Structural
Perspective on the evaluations
Perspective on evaluations
Perspective on evaluations
Perspective on evaluations
Perspective on evaluations
Compare fair housing with other civil rights
Discrimination: Then & Now
Discrimination: Bounded Rationality
Discrimination: Using Stereotypes
Discrimination: Implicit Bias
Discrimination: Social Distance
Housing is different: Residential Exceptionalism
Housing is different: Diverse Contexts
Housing is Different: Framing Theory �Individuals regularly rely on interpretative frames to understand social reality and to respond to it; and �Because particular frames focus attention on certain facts and encourage certain interpretations, frames can exert an important influence on decision-making
Housing as a Human Right
Housing as an Economic Good
Housing as Home
Housing as Providing a Social Order
Housing as the Locus of Self. Government Housing as basis for democratic
Housing as one land use in a functional system
Basis for Hope
Things to consider Be the change you want to see in the world
Things to consider: Change the law
Things to consider: Change what we do
Things to consider: Change our expectations/vision
Things to consider: Change how we imagine our relationship to the work
Change social norms
Change social norms: Fair Housing Patriotism
Change social norms 3
Image seeking a cure for a disease
Image Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Image worthy struggle
Image working as a community
Image law and order
Image little things Images of happy clients Embed Beatles’ song “It’s Been a Hard Days Night”