What does DMX have to do with fair housing? Michael Lens examines fifty years of data on Black neighborhoods since the Fair Housing Act to explore this question and provide first comprehensive picture of the characteristics and trajectories of America’s longest enduring urban racial enclaves.

Michael Lens is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Professor Lens’s research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. Professor Lens’s research has received funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Arnold Foundation, and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, among other sources.