Join Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research for a panel discussion on how Houston can stem the loss of affordable housing amid rising land values and demand.
Planner and community advocate Antoine Bryant will discuss his work on affordable housing, equitable development and community-led design.
Presented by Rice University's Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice
In 2020, the City of Houston and regional stakeholders cemented a resilience strategy and a climate action plan and adapted these initiatives to account for COVID-19’s impact on urban life. Learn more about the progress made in the first year of these two transformative efforts to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change and other physical, social, and economic urban adversities and challenges.
Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor.
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The LULAC House in Houston's Midtown neighborhood has hosted presidents and has helped launch social programs that would inspire federal efforts that continue to this day. This symbol of collective Hispanic political power could be a rallying point and a shared ground for advocates for Houston and the Latinx community alike—if it can be saved.
It is now clear that the pandemic will not be behind us anytime soon. The pandemic variants and skepticism over the vaccine have made the potential for herd immunity (requiring a very high vaccination rate globally) difficult if not impossible to attain. This means that we are probably going to have to live with COVID for the foreseeable future and to adapt continuously to its impacts to our way of life.
