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)
“Do Housing Choice Voucher Holders Want to Move to Opportunity?” by Erin Boggs, Sam Brill & Lisa Dabrowski (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
By Erin Boggs, Sam Brill & Lisa Dabrowski (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Introduction Open Communities Alliance (OCA), a Connecticut-based civil rights non-profit that advocates for balanced affordable housing placement, launched in 2014. Because a central part of our advocacy message is that, along with investments in under-resourced areas, it is … [Read more...] about “Do Housing Choice Voucher Holders Want to Move to Opportunity?” by Erin Boggs, Sam Brill & Lisa Dabrowski (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
“On the Sesquicentennial of the Fourteenth Amendment” by Theodore Shaw (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
By Theodore Shaw (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) 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 was … [Read more...] about “On the Sesquicentennial of the Fourteenth Amendment” by Theodore Shaw (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
“A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (Jan – March 2018 P&R Issue)
See the full pdf of this issue of Poverty & Race Journal here. People think: everybody has a race, and so everybody knows about race. But civil rights is actually an incredibly complex discipline. To do this work, certainly to do this work as a litigator, requires that you understand history, that you understand sociology, that you understand economics, that you understand … [Read more...] about “A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (Jan – March 2018 P&R Issue)
“History, Origin, and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” by John Koskinen (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I was pleased to chair a panel discussion in February on the “History, Origin and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” as part of the symposium held on the 50th anniversary of the Commission's report organized by the Haas Institute at UC Berkeley, the Economic Policy Institute and the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins. … [Read more...] about “History, Origin, and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” by John Koskinen (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)