Margaret Miles

Dec 9, 2024 | minnpost.com | Margaret Miles

Economic instability, a tight housing market, and disinvestment from social welfare programs set the stage for a nationwide homelessness crisis in the early 1980s. Long before then, however, housing had been more available to some Americans than to others. Racism in the South led many African Americans to look for new homes during the Great Migration (1916–1970). Termination and relocation policies (1953–1969) did the same for Native Americans.

Oct 11, 2023 | daily.jstor.org | Natalie M. Susmann |James Wright |Margaret Miles |Carla M. Antonaccio

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When we travel through the landscape, certain features stick out. These are our landmarks: sights and places that evoke a sense of familiarity. Landmarks tell us where we are and where to go next; they help ground us in the world. People create landmarks; people change them too.