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Opinion: Can CT move past a shameful history of segregation?

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Link to online article March 4, 2024 Constance L. Royster and Philip Tegeler for the CTPost The state deserves credit for the release of the Connecticut Housing & Segregation Study, which was made public in January. This deep dive into the state’s residential housing patterns reveals historic discrimination that has persisted to the present day and continues to shape … [Read more...] about Opinion: Can CT move past a shameful history of segregation?

Guest Blog Post: Of Schools, Busing, Integration And Outdated Federal Policy (The School Superintendents Blog)

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By Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council; and Sunil Mansukhani, Principal, The Raben Group (The School Superintendents Blog) Few expected busing to be a major issue during the June 27 Democratic debate.  The spirited exchange between Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden was unexpected by just about everyone, since … [Read more...] about Guest Blog Post: Of Schools, Busing, Integration And Outdated Federal Policy (The School Superintendents Blog)

Moving to End Housing Segregation (New York Times-Letter to the Editor)

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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)

Using Pay for Success to Enable Healthy Housing Choices (Nonprofit Finance Fund)

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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)

Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)

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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)