, The third annual Public Rhetoric Seminar will focus on the minutes of the Iowa City Human Right Commission's meeting of January 25, 2005, and especially on its discussion about the desirability of promoting "scattered site" housing as an alternative to concentrating low income households in particular parts of the city.

"The providers of affordable housing face a tough situation because there are only so many places to build and certainly the new subdivisions, in their bylaws and covenants and what not, have a lot of ways to keep that sort of stuff out.  It is such a difficult issue to talk about and seemingly progressive folks in this community don't want it in their backyard."

Matt Hayek, Chair
Scattered Site Housing Task Force