Loretta Lees and Initiative on Cities featured in The Brink
Sociology professor Loretta Lees was just featured in The Brink’s latest article, “BU’s Initiative on Cities Builds a Tool for Fighting Displacement.” It reports on the IOC’s partnership with the city of Louisville, Kentucky to help implement an anti-displacement ordinance preventing development projects that would push neighborhood residents out of their homes.
This was done through an open source tool, as Lees explains: “What it does that’s different to other models is, we situate the project in the context of what’s going on around it.” And it “takes the number of bedrooms, the number of units, what the rents are going to be, what rents that they’re asking, and then it puts that in the context of the wider area.”
Read the full article here.