Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Dirt, Development and Displacement

Chapter 2: Preservation and Its Permutations

Chapter 3: Building Bridges and Digging Moats: The Infrastructure for Affordable Housing Preservation

Chapter 4: Policy and Practice Foundations for Preservation

Chapter 5: Strange Bedfellows: Governance Infrastructures for Preservation

Chapter 6: Housing for Community Power and Voice

Chapter 7: Lessons Learned

About the Author

Kathryn Howell is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the co-director of the RVA Eviction Lab. She investigates ways to interrupt ongoing patterns of migration, displacement and segregation in cities. She focuses specifically on affordable housing and public spaces to explore redevelopment, displacement and governance. Over the past decade she has looked at the preservation of affordable housing in Washington, DC, examining the intersection between policies, governance and the built environment. Most recently, she has partnered with community-based and policy advocacy organizations to collect and analyze eviction data to address housing instability and ongoing displacement in communities of color in Richmond. Before earning her PhD, Dr. Howell was a practitioner in local government, developing housing and community development policy in Washington, DC and Maryland agencies.