By Jason Reece, Rachel Kleit & Amy Klaben (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Escalating affordability problems, limited housing resources, lack of access to high-opportunity communities and federal retrenchment from fair housing goals has spurred a unique local housing mobility initiative in Columbus, OH. Move to PROSPER (MTP) is a pilot initiative seeking to … [Read more...] about “Going Local to Support Fair Housing: Establishing the Move to PROSPER Housing Mobility Program” by Jason Reece, Rachel Kleit & Amy Klaben (January-April 2019 P&R Issue)
“Educational and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in the United States” by Martha Cecilia Bottia (January-April 2019 P&R Issue)
By Martha Cecilia Bottia (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It is a difficult time for immigrants around the world, particularly in the United States. Being an immigrant myself, I know it from personal experience. Regardless of citizenship status, reasons to migrate, educational background, ethnicity, fluency in the English language, and legal status, immigrants … [Read more...] about “Educational and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in the United States” by Martha Cecilia Bottia (January-April 2019 P&R Issue)
“On the Sesquicentennial of the Fourteenth Amendment” by Theodore M. Shaw (April – June 2018 P&R Issue)
See the full pdf of this issue of Poverty & Race Journal here. This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As originally written by the Founding Fathers, the Constitution was deeply flawed by its compromises with slavery. From the day it was adopted, a cataclysmic struggle over the issue … [Read more...] about “On the Sesquicentennial of the Fourteenth Amendment” by Theodore M. Shaw (April – June 2018 P&R Issue)
“Fair Housing Intersections” by Dennis Parker (April – June 2018 P&R Issue)
See the full pdf of this issue of Poverty & Race Journal here. This past spring, as part of its ongoing observation of the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, PRRAC assembled a distinguished and varied group of panelists to discuss the wide-ranging impact of the Act in the context of “Fair Housing Intersections.” Recent developments could have … [Read more...] about “Fair Housing Intersections” by Dennis Parker (April – June 2018 P&R Issue)
“Churches United for Fair Housing: Organizing and Litigating Against Exclusionary Housing Policies in Brooklyn” by Charlie Dulik & Alexandra Fennell (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
By Charlie Dulik & Alexandra Fennell (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Like every major American city, New York is deeply spatially divided along racial lines, due to redlining, residential segregation and discrimination. Arguably no place exhibits this more clearly than north Brooklyn’s Broadway Triangle, the intersection of white Williamsburg, predominantly … [Read more...] about “Churches United for Fair Housing: Organizing and Litigating Against Exclusionary Housing Policies in Brooklyn” by Charlie Dulik & Alexandra Fennell (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)