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Tue. August 17 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time
Speaker: Richard Tolin, MD
PSR Pennsylvania webinar reviewing the history of housing discrimination going back to the New Deal. Federally mandated segregation and racist lending requirements, as well as discriminatory zoning, taxation, and land development will be discussed. We will then explain the impact of consequent housing patterns on the health of the victims and their descendants. Finally we will then offer strategies of mitigation and redress.
New Date: Wed. August 25 at 7:45 pm Pacific Time
You’re invited! SF Bay PSR has launched an informal reading and discussion group to learn more about issues of structural racism and inequity, particularly as they negatively impact public health and medicine.
To join please email tara@sfbaypsr.org. All are welcome (not just health professionals).