By Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brenman (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article is the authors’ updated version of their Introduction to their 2007 book The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity. We then asked several transportation-knowledgeable commentators to respond—that Forum appears directly following the article — CH Transportation is … [Read more...] about “Transportation and Civil Rights” by Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brennan (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)
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Prescription for a New Neighborhood? Housing Vouchers as a Public Health Intervention (Kami Kruckenberg & Philip Tegeler, July 2010)
PRRAC Policy Brief (July 2010). By Kami Kruckenberg and Philip Tegeler. Excerpt: "The next opportunity for a demonstration health mobility proposal would be in HUD’s 2012 budget, which will be developed starting in the fall and winter of 2010. PRRAC is now reaching out to colleagues in the public health field to help develop this concept into a mature legislative … [Read more...] about Prescription for a New Neighborhood? Housing Vouchers as a Public Health Intervention (Kami Kruckenberg & Philip Tegeler, July 2010)
“Exploring the Parallels Between the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the African Liberation Movement” by James Pope (May-June 2010 P&R Issue)
By James Pope (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The history of African and African-American struggles for liberation interacting is as multiple and organic as its various manifestations—Negritude, Black Consciousness Movement, Black Arts Movement, to name a few. What these manifestations had in common was their desire to strengthen and unify all those of … [Read more...] about “Exploring the Parallels Between the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the African Liberation Movement” by James Pope (May-June 2010 P&R Issue)
“Universal Access to Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification” by Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin Welner and Junnifer Weiser Bezoza (January-February 2010 P&R Issue)
By Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin Welner and Jennifer Weiser Bezoza (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This is a summary of a 46-page, Dec. 2009 Legislative Policy Brief. Ronnie and Tyrone are both former students at South Side High School in Long Island, New York. They both were raised in public housing, they are both African-American, and they both entered high … [Read more...] about “Universal Access to Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification” by Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin Welner and Junnifer Weiser Bezoza (January-February 2010 P&R Issue)
New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
A BRHP-PRRAC report. By Lora Engdahl (2009). In the Baltimore region, a successful housing mobility program is providing families living in very disadvantaged inner-city communities with a new home and a chance for a new life. Minority voucher holders in the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly titled Section 8) have often been limited to living in “voucher … [Read more...] about New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
