Tag: fair housing

A review of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities, by Edward G. Goetz.

The Regional Affordable & Fair Housing Roundtable pulled off something that has often been elusive—building enough trust between fair housing advocates and place-based community developers to lead to their signing on to a joint agenda.

Diving into the issue of exclusionary practices that have exacerbated the housing crisis and offering some policy solutions.

We should have known better. The Kerner Commission taught us that race matters most, not place. But it also embedded in our psyches the equation of Black = central city and the similarly absolute equation of white = suburbs.

At the Aug. 1, 1968 signing ceremony, President Johnson proclaimed “Today, we are going to put on the books of American law what I genuinely believe is the most farsighted, the most comprehensive, the most massive housing program in all American history.” He was right. 

The collection of 17 essays captures and explains the dynamism of the fair housing movement with its remarkable contributors.

In the name of “local control,” the federal agency has abandoned enforcement of civil rights law because it believes it's too troublesome.

On May 8, 2018, three fair housing groups took action to preserve an important tool for community empowerment and equity.

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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.

Bank-seized properties in these communities of color have higher rates of neglect, and the situation has prompted a lawsuit.

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.

Last year, Philadelphia was one of the first cohorts to go through the AFFH process, a fair housing assessment mandated by HUD to discover...

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).

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...

The 115th Congress has just gotten underway and already several of its members have launched an attack on some fundamental American values: the belief...

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...

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...

As a Texas houser and fair housing advocate, I have been an anxious and interested outside observer of the...

A proposed rule change for the use of federal Housing Choice Vouchers would greatly improve the chance that housing...