Tag: fair housing

The FHA’s recent financial report card to Congress indicating that the agency may need to turn to the US Treasury...

In 2008, a sensationalistic article in The Atlantic tried to draw a causal connection between tenants with housing assistance...

“It’s unfortunate that your organization was in the newspaper today.” The words came to me over the telephone from...

Affordable housing developments proposed for affluent communities often face bitter, lengthy legal and political battles. These battles...

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....

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.

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.

By 2050, possibly sooner, people of color will be a majority in our nation. There is no way we can build a strong, stable...

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.

From the grass roots to the Oval Office: Shelterforce contributors offer policy suggestions for the next president on how to make change.

Let’s define segregation as a social harm rather than an inconvenient byproduct of individual preferences. We need alternatives for viable communities.

Across the United States since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, only a handful of lawsuits have challenged systematic racial discrimination...

Old Challenges Remain – New Challenges Arise The fair housing movement finds itself facing both old and new challenges almost 27 years after the passage...