Long Island News & PR … [Read more...] about NYS Schools to Receive Grants to Promote Socioeconomic Integration (LongIsland.com)
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Civil Rights Groups Stand in Solidarity and Awe of Young Activists in Ferguson (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
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Using Pay for Success to Enable Healthy Housing Choices (Nonprofit Finance Fund)
Dan Rinzler is Special Projects Coordinator at the Low Income Investment Fund Mary Cunningham is a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute Phil Tegeler is Executive Director at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council The Challenge: Concentrated Poverty is Bad for Health Neighborhoods play a central role in brokering Americans’ access to … [Read more...] about Using Pay for Success to Enable Healthy Housing Choices (Nonprofit Finance Fund)
The Diverse Suburbs Movement Has Never Been More Relevant (CityLab)
By Amy Stuart Wells, CityLab At a time when thousands of American suburbs like Ferguson, Missouri, are gaining more and more black and Hispanic families, the killing of Michael Brown this summer and the frustration that poured onto suburban streets afterward should prompt officials across the country to rethink their responses to demographic change. … [Read more...] about The Diverse Suburbs Movement Has Never Been More Relevant (CityLab)
Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)
By Philip Tegeler (PRRAC) and Barbara Sard (CBPP) Ideally, our federal rental housing programs should give low-income children and their families the opportunity to live in safe, healthy neighborhoods with access to high performing schools. However, our housing programs are not currently well-structured to achieve this goal. The unbalanced distribution of subsidized … [Read more...] about Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)