Municipal Finance

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/4/2022
  

  Private Capital Strangled Our Cities (Review of Destin Jenkins)

  by Samuel Zipp

  Destin Jenkins's new book makes a case that metropolitan segregation and racial inequality trace back to cities' dependence on the bond market. 

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• SOURCE: Deadline
  10/26/2021
  

  Detroit Bankruptcy Documentary Wins Library of Congress Prize

  Ken Burns, who collaborated with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on the selection, called "Gradually, Then Suddenly" a "complex, nuanced, layered" examination of the city's financial crisis and the political divide between Detroit and the state of Michigan. 

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• SOURCE: Phenomenal World
  7/12/2021
  

  Long Crises: Kim Phillips-Fein Interviews Benjamin Holtzman

  While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/1/2021
  

  What History Can Teach Banks About Making Change

  by Destin Jenkins

  "Celebrating Juneteenth and recruiting more Black bankers is one thing. It is quite another for financial firms to use their unique power to actively undermine the systems that perpetuate racial inequality."