Publications

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)

A PRRAC Report (March 2005). By Arnold R. Hirsch, Department of History University of New Orleans. Excerpt: "It has been more than a generation since the Kerner Commission rendered its judgment on the riotous 1960s. Stunning then, passe now, the exhaustive report on urban America’s defining mid-century civil disturbances pointed an accusatory finger at the nation’s dominant … [Read more...] about “The Last and Most Difficult Barrier”: Segregation and Federal Housing Policy in the Eisenhower Administration, 1953-1960 (Arnold R. Hirsch, March 2005)

A PRRAC Publication (February 2005). Excerpt: "Thompson v. HUD was filed in 1994 on behalf of a class of African American public housing residents. Like several other public housing desegregation cases, the Thompson case was triggered by the demolition of a high rise public housing development, with plans to locate replacement housing in neighborhoods with similar levels of … [Read more...] about An Analysis of the Thompson v. HUD Decision (PRRAC, February 2005)

A PRRAC Report. By David M. P. Freund, Princeton University. Excerpt: "In July of 1963, the administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver, spoke to a meeting of his Intergroup Relations Service (IRS), the “race relations” staff charged with promoting non-discrimination in federal housing programs. His talk came at a time of dramatic change in … [Read more...] about “Democracy’s Unfinished Business”: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-1968 (David M.P. Freund, June 2004)