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WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published July 5, 2021 at 8:00 AM EDT

Affordable housing and housing affordability: the perspectives of a fair housing advocate, an urban homebuilder and a rural housing developer | "Everyday places" with dark histories as sites of mob lynchings | Kentucky's efforts to open classroom teaching to non-education career professionals

Contact: Tom Martin at es@eku.edu or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358

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