Join Court Theatre and the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) for an evening of art, exploration, and conversation about the history of housing injustice. In a conversation moderated by NPHM Executive Director Lisa Lee, housing advocates and experts will share their creative approaches to interrogating the well-intentioned narrative that homeownership is the answer to combating systems of oppression that hinder Black mobility and generational wealth.
Prior to the conversation, visit the National Public Housing Museum’s exhibitions:
- Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located.
- “What Happened Next?” recreates a 1950s apartment and offers learning on how redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, and other federal and local housing policies shaped the demographics of cities, as well as public housing.
- Demand the Impossible questions the so-called American dream of home ownership, why it’s a potent symbol of success in our society, and why it’s often lauded as the surest path to financial security, though millions of Americans find it increasingly out of reach.