A National Housing Law Project, PRRAC, Sherwood Research Associates, and ENPHRONT Report (June 2002). Excerpt: "Nearly a decade ago, the HOPE VI program was launched to address the most troubled portion of the public housing stock, the small percentage of public housing sites that were “severely distressed.” HOPE VI is a competitive grant program, under which public housing … [Read more...] about False HOPE: A Critical Assessment of the HOPE VI Public Housing Redevelopment Program (National Housing Law Project, PRRAC, Sherwood Research Associates, & ENPHRONT, June 2002)
Publications
High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind (Chester Hartman and Alison Leff, May 2002)
By Chester Hartman and Alison Leff. A chapter appearing in Rights at Risk: Equality in an Age of Terrorism, the biannual report of the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights and Poverty & Race (May 2002). Read the Chapter... Description: The Citizens’ Commission, chaired by PRRAC Board member William L. Taylor, issued, on Lincoln’s birthday (“Is the Republican Party … [Read more...] about High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind (Chester Hartman and Alison Leff, May 2002)
The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt, by Raymond Mohl (2002)
PRRAC Civil Rights Research, Original release 2002 Raymond A. Mohl Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham © Raymond A. Mohl American cities experienced dramatic change in the decades after the Second World War. These changes included the massive deconcentration of central city population, the shift of economic activities to the suburban periphery, … [Read more...] about The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt, by Raymond Mohl (2002)
Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America (Edited by Chester Hartman, 2001)
A PRRAC Publication (2001). Edited by Chester Hartman, foreword by John Lewis. Description: A second volume of the best articles and symposia from Poverty & Race, our bimonthly publication, on the country’s two most important, and seemingly intractable, social problems – and the added impact when they intersect. For more information... … [Read more...] about Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America (Edited by Chester Hartman, 2001)
The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt (Raymond A. Mohl, 2002)
A PRRAC Report (2002). By Raymond A. Mohl, Department of History, the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Excerpt: "American cities experienced dramatic change in the decades after the Second World War. These changes included the massive deconcentration of central city population, the shift of economic activities to the suburban periphery, the deindustrialization or … [Read more...] about The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt (Raymond A. Mohl, 2002)
