by Raphael Bostic In her new book How the Other Half Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia, tells the true story of three borrowers. The first,…
Tag: Home Matters
While much of my academic career has been spent studying how families get credit to buy homes, the past few years have made me much more aware that simply getting…
by Raphael Bostic If you list the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development—generally considered to be the most highly developed, democratic nations in the world—and you…
by Raphael Bostic I love teaching. I love getting to know my students, challenging them to think in new ways, and engaging them in a conversation centered around important questions. I…
by Raphael Bostic When people talk about home, usually they have in mind the place where they cook their food, store their belongings, relax and recover from the day’s activities, bathe,…
by Raphael Bostic It’s hard to write about education knowing I could have been, but wasn’t, denied all the opportunities that have come my way. For all the decisions we have…
by Raphael Bostic They say that twilight is the most dangerous time on the battlefield. Half day, half night, the light plays tricks on your eyes, and the time plays tricks…
by Raphael Bostic We may—or may not—be on the brink of a housing revolution. You may not have noticed yet, but this moment is an opportunity. Whether we seize it is…
by Liz Falletta A reaction to Evicted by Matthew Desmond Though housing type and housing design are near the top of the list for many of us as we evaluate our…
by Raphael Bostic I heard a story recently about a man who lived in a crooked apartment. The floor was sloped, so that if you placed a bottle at one end…
by Raphael Bostic On the afternoon of August 15, 2015, Jamyla Bolden came home from Koch Elementary School in eastern Missouri to play with her friend Akeelah on Ellison Drive,…
by Raphael Bostic During this Black History Month, and for many to come, we must never forget the dream—and fight for a new inheritance, one woven not of exclusion but instead…
by Raphael Bostic About 150 years ago, people figured out that lead pipes could kill them. In 1861, fifty prisoners in King County Jail in Brooklyn started vomiting uncontrollably, until a…
by Raphael Bostic On Thursday morning, when I fly from Los Angeles to Utah for Thanksgiving with my family, there will come a moment when I’m reminded just how fortunate…