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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