The Mews with Marpheen Chann
Join Marpheen Chann as he provides commentary on the top news of the week with a local perspective a
In the fourth episode, Marpheen talks with Nick Schroeder from the The Bangor Daily News about the Isahak Muse murder case and interviews City of Portland, Maine Housing and Community Development Division Director Mary Davis about the 2019 Housing Report.
Episode 004: Portland Housing 101 with Housing Division Director Mary Davis In the fourth episode, Marpheen talks with Nick Schroeder from the Bangor Daily News about the Isahak Muse murder case and the 2019 Housing Report with Portland Housing and Community Development Division Director Mary Davis.
Episode 4 will be out tomorrow night in time for your Wednesday commutes to work. Meanwhile, here’s a snippet from my interview with Portland Housing and Community Development Director Mary Davis. Enjoy!
Here’s a snippet from episode 3. The audio you hear is from a 1950s documentary exploring racism in a suburban development in Pennsylvania.
In this week’s episode, we talk about French President Macron’s Jedi mind tricks on President Trump, Isahak Muse’s murderer’s racist and xenophobic remarks, the Portland Press Herald Sunday editorial on affordable housing, and tie that into a recap of the Richard Rothstein lecture on Thursday, Dec. 5th. on government sponsorship of housing segregation and discrimination.
Listen to it below or on Spotify, Stitcher, and iTunes.
Episode 003: Our Housing is Haunted by the Ghost of Jim Crow Think our modern housing problems can be fixed with more housing? Think again. Marpheen Chann discusses how suburbanization and segregation are linked and fueled many of today's problems as it relates to housing and urban sprawl.