Interview with Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Roberta Achtenberg, former Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, came to Washington from San Francisco, where she had been an elected member of the city’s Board of Supervisors […]
Neighborhood Choice: A Way Out for Some
The same factors that created ghettos of race and poverty operated to maintain them, even when subsidy might have provided a way out.
No Vacancy! Moving to Opportunity in Baltimore’s suburbs
Moving to Opportunity, an integration program helping poor Black public housing residents move to the suburbs, created a white political backlash that limited the national program.
Insurance Redlining: Still Fact, Not Fiction
Homeowner insurance redlining discriminates against Blacks and undermines urban redevelopment.
Coalition of Lenders and Investors Help Create the Community Development Financial Institution Act of 1994
When more than 500 hundred people met for the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Training Institute in Durham, NC, in late January, 1994, participants called this first official gathering […]
Organizing the South Bronx
IAF Challenges the South Bronx Organizing the South Bronx, by Jim Rooney. 1995. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 283 pages. $14.95. (paper) In November 1994, The New […]