Dr. Ben Teresa
Dr. Ben Teresa, co-founder and director of the RVA Eviction Lab, will be presenting on “Housing in a Time of Monopoly Power: Emerging Threats and an Agenda for Housing Justice."
As affordable and decent housing falls outside the reach of an increasing number of households, the housing crisis is transforming the meaning and experience of owning and renting a home. This talk explores housing markets at the cutting edge of these changes within expensive gentrifying cities, declining postindustrial regions, and growing single family suburban neighborhoods to show how the housing system is shifting the costs of housing onto renters and localities, reducing housing choices, and creating precarious housing tenures, often on the basis of racial difference. By focusing on the public and private actions that support the expansion of this monopoly power in housing markets, the talk outlines an agenda for addressing housing problems and achieving housing justice.
Dr. Kevin Gaines
Dr. Kevin K. Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia.
Gaines’ scholarship focuses on the problems and projects of racial integration in the United States during and after the civil rights movement. A distinguished scholar in African-American history, he holds appointments in the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies and the Corcoran Department of History. He is author of “Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture During the Twentieth Century” and “American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era”. His current research focuses on the integrationist projects of African American activists, artists and intellectuals, interventions that redefined blackness and acknowledged the relationship of structural and ideological forms of racism to racial capitalism, patriarchy, and homophobia.