Episode Details

Mike talks with Michelle Wilde Anderson, professor of property, local government, and environmental justice at Stanford Law School, about her recently released book, The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America.

Topics Mike & Michelle Cover Include:

• the problem of citywide poverty
• poor cities and gateway cities
• ineffective “solutions” to citywide poverty
• how pathologizing poor cities as failed and corrupt makes things worse
• the importance of rebuilding trust in tackling citywide poverty
• poverty & hope in Stockton California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit Michigan

Michelle Wilde Anderson on Twitter

Mike on Instagram (lots of dog pictures 🐶)

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