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When the Feds Step Back on Fair Housing, Can States Step Up?
It's not new for states and localities to have their own fair housing and community reinvestment measures—but as the federal government backs away from enforcement, their versions may become more important.
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson and His Perverse Actions on Fair Housing
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, HUD Secretary Ben Carson is doing all he can to undermine its mission.
How Poorly Maintained Bank-owned Homes Harm Black and Latino Communities
Bank-seized properties in these communities of color have higher rates of neglect, and the situation has prompted a lawsuit.
Say It Loud: Renters’ Rights are Civil Rights!
Private developers and public agencies are finally investing in neighborhoods near transit and jobs—where many low-income communities of color have lived for generations—and as a result, are being pushed out just as resources in their neighborhoods are increasing.
In Spite of HUD, Fair Housing Process Can Help Communities
Last year, Philadelphia was one of the first cohorts to go through the AFFH process, a fair housing assessment mandated by HUD to discover impediments to opportunity in the city. […]
Doctors Join the Fight Against Speculators
Around the country, health care institutions have started to employ lawyers onsite to help patients fight landlords for better housing conditions or qualify for housing subsidies (plus a range of other legal supports that will generally have direct effect on their health).
Lawn Sign Liberalism
If you live anywhere with a substantial resistance to the current administration’s attacks on immigrants, you may have seen these lawn/window signs–they say, in Spanish, English, and Arabic, “No matter […]
New Bills Would Enforce Ignorance on State of Housing Opportunity
The 115th Congress has just gotten underway and already several of its members have launched an attack on some fundamental American values: the belief that choices about where to live […]
Houston, It’s Time to Stop Accommodating Segregation
Overall, Houston, Texas, is one of the most statistically diverse cities in the country. But at the neighborhood level, it is severely racially segregated. This is no accident. […]
Fair Housing is NOT War on the Suburbs
The Obama administration’s revised Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule has recently come under fire—again—by the new administration. Attacks on the rule have been debated here on Rooflines, but what […]
No Going Back to Segregation After Landmark Texas Fair Housing Case
As a Texas houser and fair housing advocate, I have been an anxious and interested outside observer of the long-running fair housing lawsuit in my state. The U.S. Supreme Court’s […]
Give Housing Vouchers Their Full Power
A proposed rule change for the use of federal Housing Choice Vouchers would greatly improve the chance that housing vouchers will do what they are supposed to do: Provide low […]
The Devil’s in the Details: Key Issues in Implementing the New AFFH Rule
For most of the Fair Housing Act’s history, its requirement to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing has been largely dormant. With the advent of the new AFFH rules in July 2015, […]