Derek Hyra

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Derek Hyra is associate professor and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center in the School of Public Affairs at American University.
Housing

Addressing Social Segregation in Mixed-Income Communities

In some newly created mixed-income, mixed-race communities, we are witnessing “diversity segregation,” where people of different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and incomes live next to one another but not alongside one another.

Front of Wanda's Hair Salon in DC's Shaw neighborhood
Communities

Equitable Development in Shaw

A recent New York Times article on the revitalization of Washington, DC’s Shaw neighborhood highlighted how real estate developers have rebranded the area to attract mainly white Millennials to this […]