Author Richard Kahlenberg on Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
Like climate change, the affordable housing shortage is a solvable problem. To learn more about how to navigate that, join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, for a one-hour Zoom discussion with Richard Kahlenberg who wrote, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.
Register Here for the Oct. 20 Zoom Webinar
Kahlenberg will be in conversation with Chevy Chase DC residents Ron Eichner, an architect/developer, and Ellen McCarthy, former director of the DC Office of Planning. They will explore what communities like Chevy Chase DC, which is grappling with the redevelopment of its civic core, can learn about the origins and costs of exclusionary housing practices and the benefits of income-integrated housing solutions in wealthier neighborhoods.
Carl Lankowski, former longtime HCCDC president, said the conversation is an extension of HCCDC’s Chevy Chase 250 Series, which challenges neighbors to consider what we as a community can do to redeem the promise of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Kahlenberg is director of Housing Policy and director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute. He is the author of 19 books on various aspects of housing and education policy, including Excluded. In addition, he is a professorial lecturer at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Eichner serves on the boards of Ward3Vision, the DC History Center, Chevy Chase Forward, and Historic Chevy Chase
DC. McCarthy, who was with the DC Planning board from l999-2007, has more than 35 years of professional experience focused on the practice of land use zoning, neighborhood planning, and historic preservation.
Copies of Excluded, published by PublicAffairs, are available for purchase at Politics & Prose Bookstore and other booksellers.