Tag: fair housing
Where are people returning to the community from prison supposed to...
The United States is incarceration happy. Our incarceration rate is five times as high as comparable countries, and has been the highest in the...
FHA’s Delicate Balancing Act
The FHA’s recent financial report card to Congress indicating that the agency may need to turn to the US Treasury...
How Do You Respond? Section 8 and Crime
In 2008, a sensationalistic article in The Atlantic tried to draw a causal connection between tenants with housing assistance...
Justice in Delaware! Blocked Housing Project to Move Forward
“It’s unfortunate that your organization was in the newspaper today.” The words came to me over the telephone from...
Fear of Affordable Housing
Affordable housing developments proposed for affluent communities often face bitter, lengthy legal and political battles.
These battles...
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....
Interview: Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is dealing with an evolving set of discrimination challenges facing families, changes in the very definition of "family," and the political realities of the 112th Congress. Trasviña is no stranger to this balancing act.
Transportation and Fair Housing Part 1: We Need a Better Measure...
Factoring in costs that tend to be lower in urban high-poverty neighborhoods, but not costs that tend to be higher there makes the H+T Index unsuitable as a tool for locating low-income housing.
No One Left Behind
By 2050, possibly sooner, people of color will be a majority in our nation. There is no way we can build a strong, stable...
Transportation and Fair Housing Part 2: Consider Transportation Cost to Make...
The H+T Index should be used to site affordable housing, because it can identify which high-opportunity areas also are truly affordable in terms of transportation costs.
Memos on How To Make Change From the Grass Roots to...
From the grass roots to the Oval Office: Shelterforce contributors offer policy suggestions for the next president on how to make change.
You Wouldn’t Fit Here
Let’s define segregation as a social harm rather than an inconvenient byproduct of individual preferences. We need alternatives for viable communities.
How Well Did Yonkers Fair Housing Measures Work?
Across the United States since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, only a handful of lawsuits have challenged systematic racial discrimination...
Fair Housing In America
Old Challenges Remain – New Challenges Arise
The fair housing movement finds itself facing both old and new challenges almost 27 years after the passage...
