Purpose:
Building One America highlights regional policies, programs, and strategies with proven success in combating concentrated poverty, residential and school segregation, and sprawl – building solutions into national policy.
Goals:
Stopping the cycle of intergenerational poverty in multiple metropolitan areas, building inclusive and sustainable communities, driving regional economic competitiveness, reducing carbon emissions in metropolitan America…
Leaders:
Mayors, religious leaders, members of Congress, high level state officials, graduates of fair housing, mobility counseling and integrative school transfer programs giving on-the-ground testimony on breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty…
Participants:
Leaders from the fair housing/civil rights legal community; leading academic researchers on metropolitan poverty, school segregation and opportunity housing; labor leaders; interfaith religious leaders; local municipal officials; state legislators; congressional staff and advisors; and staff from US DOT, HUD, DOE, EPA; federal legislators; and hundreds of grass roots leader…
