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Park, K-Sue. Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America, 41 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1006-1035, 2016
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Rothstein, Richard, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2017).
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Congressional Research Service. “FHA-Insured Home Loans: An Overview.” CSR Report RS20530. Updated January 16, 2019 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS20530.pdf
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If you don’t know I’m Just a Bill, we recommend you watch this 1970s musical explainer about how laws are created.
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Cities 101 – Mayoral Powers. National League of Cities. (2020, October 23). Retrieved February 5, 2022, from https://www.nlc.org/resource/cities-101-mayoral-powers/
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“Policy” is an umbrella term that can mean ordinance, resolution, legislation, etc. Some words are used interchangeably, like law and bill (though technically a bill is a proposed law that has not yet been adopted and a law is the result of passing a bill), but others have precise meanings.
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McGee, Heather, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.(New York City, NY: One World, 2021), 13:05 in audiobook.
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Rothstein, The Color of Law.
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Menendian, Stephen, Samir Gambhir, Karina French, and Arthur Gailes. “Single-Family Zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area: Characteristics of Exclusionary Communities.” Othering & Belonging Institute, October 7, 2020. https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area.
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Grasstops is a term often used to describe organizing efforts among people in positions of formal power and authority that are aligned either formally or informally to grassroots organizing efforts that derive their power by organizing people without access to formal power or authority.
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Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. “Cancel the Rent.” The New Yorker, May 12, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/cancel-the-rent.
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Holder, Sarah, and Brentin Mock. “A Group of Mothers, a Vacant Home, and a Win for Fair Housing.” Bloomberg CityLab. January 28, 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-28/the-oakland-moms-who-launched-a-housing-movement.
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Art/Work Practice. Rep. Cultural Strategy: An Introduction and Primer. Power California, n.d. https://powercalifornia.org/cultural-strategy-report. (pg. 11)
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Manuel, Strategic CaseMaking: The Field Guide for Building Public and Political Will (Orlando, Florida: The CaseMade Press, 2020), 13.
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Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013), 158.
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Manuel, Strategic CaseMaking: The Field Guide for Building Public and Political Will, 33.
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Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
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“Quick” is a relative term. Plenty of practitioners can spend years trying to advance seemingly straightforward strategies. If conditions become unfavorable, new leadership takes over, or the political will seems to be in place but nobody is able to implement (for instance, because agencies are understaffed), your quick win may turn into a long haul.
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Manuel, Strategic CaseMaking: The Field Guide for Building Public and Political Will, 33.
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Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)