Alan Jenkins
Alan Jenkins is the executive director and co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda.
An Opportunity Century? Election 2012, Social Justice, and America
What lessons do the 2012 election results hold for those of us who are committed to expanding opportunity and protecting human rights?
An Open Letter To The Candidates: We Need Housing Solutions
Last week, a coalition of housing, civil rights, and consumer protection groups issued an open letter to President Obama and...
Get Specific on the Homeownership Crisis
Now that the presidential tickets are set, it’s time for the candidates to get specific about problems and solutions critical...
Gabby, Ryan, and Home Opportunity for All
Not even Olympians are immune from America’s homeownership crisis. The Associated Press reported this week that the parents of U.S....
It’s Time for Home Opportunity
Dramatic developments this month have underscored our nation’s progress, as well as our continuing peril, when it comes to Home...
No More Excuses: Principal Reduction Will Give Relief to American Homeowners
One by one, the excuses have fallen. Yet Edward DeMarco, acting head of FHFA, the agency that runs Fannie...
Racial Discrimination by Banks Only Worsens the Foreclosure Crisis
This is the first entry in a series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back,...
Honoring Justice
Earlier this month, I had the honor of speaking at the memorial service for civil rights hero and respected jurist...
Obama’s Wrong Note on Foreclosures
As Election Day nears, President Obama is regaining his populist mojo. His State of the Union address was mostly pitch...
An Opportunity to Talk About the Foreclosure Crisis
As the Republican presidential candidates debate the moral legitimacy of venture capital strategies, and the Occupy movement continues to challenge...
Magner v. Gallagher and Fair Housing in the 21st Century
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a little-known case with profound implications for our nation’s progress toward equal opportunity for all....
Raising Hell and Raising Money, Too
An ally of my agency, the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley (CACLV), told me about a conversation he once had with the...