Housing or Humanities: A Crossroad of Inequality at UW-Madison
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National Policy
By
Lindsey Kourafas
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's plan to demolish the Zoe Bayliss Women’s Cooperative—a vital affordable housing provider— for a new Humanities building, highlights the ongoing struggle between educational advancement and housing inequality. Amid a system favoring affluent white students, the fate of this last student housing cooperative raises crucial questions about housing discrimination and the deep-seated inequality in U.S. higher education.