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Why city’s West Greenville plan must address the area’s racial inequities
In an opinion piece appearing in The Greenville News, two Furman University professors sound off on the City of Greenville's proposed Micro-Area Plan, a.k.a. Village Action Plan, for the Village of West Greenville. Judith Williams,...
Continue ReadingGreenville churches, faith groups address affordable housing gap
Greenville area faith communities are doing their part to shore up a dearth in affordable housing in the Upstate by selling off and/or developing their unused property for single-family homes. A report by Angelia Davis...
Continue ReadingNew book tackles what people get wrong about food deserts in Southernside, West Greenville
[caption id="attachment_52348" align="alignright" width="200"] Kolb's book is due out in December.[/caption] Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the sociology department at Furman University, is set to publish his second book, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food...
Continue ReadingWest Greenville is no longer a majority Black neighborhood
Ken Kolb, Furman University associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, studies housing trends in the university's hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. At a City Council meeting where he cited data from the...
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