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Housing In High Point

Boarded up houses in some low income neighborhoods of High Point drive home the prevalence of income inequality.
Jordan Green
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Triad City Beat
Boarded up houses in some low income neighborhoods of High Point drive home the prevalence of income inequality.
Boarded up houses in some low income neighborhoods of High Point drive home the prevalence of income inequality.
Credit Jordan Green / Triad City Beat
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Triad City Beat
Boarded up houses in some low income neighborhoods of High Point drive home the prevalence of income inequality.

Triad City Beat Senior Editor Jordan Green spent a year investigating housing ownership in lower income neighborhoods of High Point, North Carolina.

Host Frank Stasio speaks with Green about the racial lines of poverty in lower income neighborhoods, and how nearly more than 80 years of racial economic housing policies has limited access to loans and squashed opportunities for upward mobility for many African-Americans in High Point. Triad City Beat senior editor Jordan Green speaks with host Frank Stasio about how years of racial economic housing policies has limited home ownership in a lower income neighborhood of High Point, North Carolina.

  This is a rebroadcast. The original air date was January 24, 2017.

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Laura Pellicer is a producer with The State of Things (hyperlink), a show that explores North Carolina through conversation. Laura was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, a city she considers arrestingly beautiful, if not a little dysfunctional. She worked as a researcher for CBC Montreal and also contributed to their programming as an investigative journalist, social media reporter, and special projects planner. Her work has been nominated for two Canadian RTDNA Awards. Laura loves looking into how cities work, pursuing stories about indigenous rights, and finding fresh voices to share with listeners. Laura is enamored with her new home in North Carolina—notably the lush forests, and the waves where she plans on moonlighting as a mediocre surfer.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.