By Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, ed., Routledge 2006. Synopsis: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response. But it is … [Read more...] about There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina (Edited by Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, 2006)
Publications
Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Final Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility (PRRAC, December 2005)
A PRRAC Conference Report (December 2005). Edited by Philip Tegeler, Mary Cunningham, and Margery Austin Taylor. Excerpt: "This report is an attempt to capture—and update—the best insights of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility, hosted by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and held at the Urban Institute in December 2004. The authors represented in … [Read more...] about Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Final Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility (PRRAC, December 2005)
Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
A PRRAC Report (December 2005). By Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler. Read Report Here... Excerpt: "The struggle for open housing begun by the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966 is still very much in progress, in Chicago and across the country. If the aims of the Freedom Movement were overly ambitious, one can only fault its leaders – as one black reader did in a letter to … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
Lawyers and Social Change: Taking the Long View in Baltimore (Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes, September 2005)
By Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes (Next American City, September 2005). Excerpt: THIS PAST JANUARY, A FEDERAL JUDGE in Baltimore, Marvin Garbis, issued a major housing desegregation ruling that explores the ways in which many American metropolitan areas have become—and stay—so racially and economically segregated. The lawsuit, Thompson v. HUD, was filed by the … [Read more...] about Lawyers and Social Change: Taking the Long View in Baltimore (Phillip Tegeler & Michael Sarbanes, September 2005)
The Persistence of Segregation in Government Housing Programs (Philip Tegeler, July 2005)
By Philip Tegeler. Chapter in The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America, Xavier de Souza Briggs, ed., Brookings Press. Synopsis: The book explores the many facets of metropolitan segregation and opportunity and provides an excellent overview of the most important new research and policy work in this area. … [Read more...] about The Persistence of Segregation in Government Housing Programs (Philip Tegeler, July 2005)