National Expert on Housing Inequities to Speak on Cape Cod
Local housing advocates will join for panel talk at Woods Hole event.
Author Richard D. Kahlenberg will present his research on housing inequities and share inspiring stories of a growing number of local and national movements working to tear down the walls that inflict damage on the lives of millions of Americans.
The public session, co-sponsored by Housing Assistance and the Jewel Cobb Action Coalition, is titled “Housing Our Community: Challenges, Collaborations and Hope.” It will be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Clapp Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, 4-6 p.m. on August 26.
Kahlenberg’s latest book, “Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See” (2023), is an indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it.
Housing Assistance CEO Alisa Magnotta will open the program. A panel discussion will follow about potential solutions for Cape Cod. Panelists include Ellie Costa, board president, Farming Falmouth; Michael Galasso, affordable housing developer; Hannah Vanderscheuren, co-chair, MBL Housing Action Committee; and Rob Brennan, attorney and real estate and housing developer.
