To the Editor: Your editorial is an especially important call for a renewed and enhanced commitment to ensuring that federal housing programs truly increase access to opportunity. Residential segregation and disinvestment have been caused and perpetuated by a long history of public and private discrimination. Overcoming this has been one of the most difficult … [Read more...] about Moving to End Housing Segregation (New York Times-Letter to the Editor)
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Past an Invisible Fence: Gauging Obama’s New Housing Rule (NBC News)
By Halimah Abdullah and Candace King, NBC News There is no actual barrier dividing the predominantly black and poor Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived and ultimately died from the more affluent and white enclaves in and surrounding the city. … [Read more...] about Past an Invisible Fence: Gauging Obama’s New Housing Rule (NBC News)
New Coalition Promotes Diverse Student Populations in Charter Schools (Education Week)
By Amanda Ulrich, Education Week Fourteen socioeconomically and racially diverse charter schools from eight different states have joined together to form a national coalition to share resources and promote the creation of more schools like them across the country. … [Read more...] about New Coalition Promotes Diverse Student Populations in Charter Schools (Education Week)
How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor (CityLab)
By Alana Semuels, CityLab When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to “go back to your Section 8 homes” at a public pool earlier this month, she inadvertently spoke volumes about the failure of a program that was designed to help America’s poor. … [Read more...] about How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor (CityLab)
HUD Considers Change to Section 8 Rents (Baltimore Sun)
By Natalie Sherman, Baltimore Sun The federal government is considering an overhaul of its subsidized housing program that would change the way it determines rent limits from a one-size-fits-all approach for metro areas to a more localized approach that could allow more people to move to Baltimore's suburbs. … [Read more...] about HUD Considers Change to Section 8 Rents (Baltimore Sun)
