Interested in urban history, housing justice, or how race and gender intersect with policy?

Join us and Dr. Dantzler for an engaging discussion that reveals the history of how housing managers held the power to decide who got to stay & who was pushed out!

Public housing has long been understood through the lens of structural inequality and racialized immobility, yet less attention has been paid to how housing managers shaped tenant experiences and trajectories. Drawing on archival materials, administrative records, and historical Census data from Atlanta between the 1930s and 1970s, this study examines how managers exercised discretion in determining who could remain in public housing and who was pushed out. The study reveals how racialized and gendered assumptions about tenant worthiness, domesticity, and self-sufficiency informed everyday bureaucratic decisions, shaping housing opportunities and constraining Black social mobility and belonging.

Featuring Guest Speaker:
Dr. Prentiss Dantzler, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto