Americans are rightly proud of their civil rights laws, adopted in the 1960s in response to a broad based domestic Civil Rights Movement and increasing international pressure to undo officially sanctioned discrimination and segregation. As part of that same international movement, in 1965 the U.N. adopted a broad human rights treaty to address racial discrimination – the … [Read more...] about The CERD Treaty and U.S. Civil Rights Law (June 2011)
Policy Briefs
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Secondary Mortgage Market Reform: Making the Connection (June 2011)
The ongoing debate over reform of the residential mortgage system has significant implications for borrowers of color, who were disproportionately affected by the foreclosure crisis. One aspect of the financial reform debate, highlighted in the Obama Administration’s 2011 Report to Congress, involves the development of a new entity or entities to assure liquidity and stability … [Read more...] about Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Secondary Mortgage Market Reform: Making the Connection (June 2011)
Two Simple Changes to Improve Health Outcomes In the Section 8 Voucher Program (April 2011)
Patterns of government-supported racial and economic segregation are a key cause of minority health disparities. Leading public health scholars recognize that neighborhoods play a crucial role in determining health outcomes: The rapidly growing evidence on neighborhood effects finds that after taking into account individual-level factors, disadvantaged neighborhood … [Read more...] about Two Simple Changes to Improve Health Outcomes In the Section 8 Voucher Program (April 2011)
Innovation and the Federal Housing Budget: Notes for President Obama’s “Listening Tour” (March 2011)
Anyone who thinks that the words “innovation” and “HUD” don’t belong in the same sentence should take notice: In the past two years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been crafting innovative solutions to bureaucratic problems that have plagued the agency for decades. These innovations are coming from across the program spectrum. Agency … [Read more...] about Innovation and the Federal Housing Budget: Notes for President Obama’s “Listening Tour” (March 2011)
NCSD Issue Brief 1: Key Principles for ESEA Reauthorization (February 2011)
ESEA Should Further Its Original Purposes: Providing High Quality, Equitable Opportunities for All Children and Countering the Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Racial Isolation Today, public schoolchildren are more racially isolated than at any time in the past four decades. And, racially isolated schools are overwhelmingly high-poverty schools: indeed nine out of ten of … [Read more...] about NCSD Issue Brief 1: Key Principles for ESEA Reauthorization (February 2011)
