Just Action: Challenging the Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law [EVENT]


On October 26, 2023 Richard Rothstein returns to San Mateo, accompanied this time by his daughter and housing policy expert Leah Rothstein. Together they will discuss how concerned community members can act to undo the harms of this history and remedy a profoundly unconstitutional aspect of our nation’s past.

We can fix racial segregation on the Peninsula


The Bay Area is more racially segregated today than it was in 1970. Among the many destructive problems with residential segregation, one is that it helps governments create major imbalances in where they invest resources.