Chapter 6 Discussion Topics

Access to Housing and Transportation

  1. Discuss different strategies used to prevent gentrification and ghettoization. Which do you think can be the most effective, and why?
  1. Come up with some methods the government can use to better prevent housing discrimination. What barriers prevent these from being implemented?
  1. Why do you think poorer areas of a city tend to be underserviced by public transit? How can this issue be addressed?
  1. Discuss whether the housing situation is more affordable and more equitable in rural or urban areas. Why might this be?
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