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Deyanira Nevárez Martínez

Deyanira Nevárez Martínez is assistant professor of urban and regional planning at Michigan State University.

A Bold Anti-Poverty Experiment From The 1960s Could Inspire Housing Justice Courtesy: The Conversation

A Bold Anti-Poverty Experiment From The 1960s Could Inspire Housing Justice

What made the Model Cities program unique wasn’t just its scale but its philosophy. At the heart of the program was an insistence on “widespread citizen participation.”