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Metropolitan Boston has experienced dramatic
changes in its population and settlement patterns over the
past several decades. These changes pose new possibilities
and risks to the region. Communities across the metro area
face issues of equity and access to adequate housing, education,
transportation, and employment opportunities. To deal effectively
with these issues within a more complex metropolitan space,
communities in metro Boston will have to coordinate at a regional
level, and must reconsider civil rights goals and ideals within
the context of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society
The Metropolitan Boston Equity Initiative is
a yearlong effort investigating racial change and the implications
of such change for social and economic opportunity within
the region’s diverse population. Conducted by the Civil
Rights Project at Harvard University, and sponsored by the
Foley Hoag Foundation,
the Hyams Foundation,
the Boston Foundation, John
Hancock and the Fannie
Mae Foundation, the Initiative aims to:
- Generate a powerful series of reports on racial change
and inequalities in metropolitan Boston, including analyses
of positive public policy changes and discussions of alternative
measures and visions for the future;
- Stimulate a broad discussion among community groups, local
and state leaders, the media, civil rights organizations,
and researchers over the problems and possible solutions
for issues raised in these reports.
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