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GPASA Movie Screening & Discussion OWNED: A Tale of Two Americas by The Graduate Public Administration Student Association (GPASA)
- When:
- Location:
- Town Hall
- Room:
- Town Hall
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gpasa-movie-screening-discussion-owned-a-tale-of-two-americas-registration-82866288299
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GPASA Screening of Owned: A Tales of Two Americas and a discussion after about a disturbing history of housing policy in America.
About this Event
The Graduate Public Administration Student Association (GPASA) at the University of Baltimore would like to invite you to a screening of Owned: A Tales of Two Americas.
Refreshments will be provided.
About Owned:
After World War II, US housing policy sought to create middle-class wealth through homeownership—but these benefits were largely intended for whites only. Today, we see the results: practices including redlining, predatory lending and unchecked speculation have Americans—of all races—shut out from the dream or drowning in real-estate debt. Moving from Levittown to Orange County to Baltimore, this timely film exposes the greed, flawed economic policy and systemic racism that distorted “the American dream” into a game only few can win.
Owned unearths the complicated, painful, often disturbing history of housing policy in America, shifting perceptions about what the idea of home means.
'Owned' is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own.
Theme: Social Equity, Public Policy, Housing Policy, Discriminate laws, Segregation history, foreclosure, Baltimore, Activism, Community, Crime, Race
Location: The Learning Commons Building on the University of Baltimore Campus.
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This event is organized by a University of Baltimore student organization. All UB student organizations operate under the guidance of the Rosenberg Center for Student Involvement. For more information, please visit www.ubalt.edu/csi, call 410.837.5419, or e-mail csi@ubalt.edu.
- Contact Name:
- Christina Stocks
- Contact Email:
- christina.stocks@ubalt.edu
Appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request 10 days prior to a campus event and 30 days prior to an event requiring travel.
