by Daniel J. Losen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In 1999, Christopher Edley, Co-Director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP), following Jesse Jackson’s bold defense of suspended students in Decatur, Illinois, told his staff that he had scheduled a meeting with Education Secretary Richard Riley and requested CRP to create a briefing … [Read more...] about “Re-Directing the School to Prison Pipeline” by Daniel J. Losen (July-August 2005 P&R Issue)
Symposium Responses
“Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By David Rusk (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) What my colleague john powell has termed creating “opportunity-based housing” is the goal of Alex Polikoff’s call for a sustained, Gautreaux-type program of 100,000 federal housing vouchers a year to relocate poor black families from high-poverty, opportunity-poor ghettoes to low-poverty, opportunity-rich … [Read more...] about “Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
“Needed Element: Laws Prohibiting Source of Income Discrimination” by Libby Perl (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By Libby Perl (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I agree with the premise of Alexander Polikoff’s proposal that housing vouchers are the best way to attack concentrations of poverty and segregation in urban communities. Yet Polikoff’s worthy program is likely to fail unless the law governing housing vouchers is changed. As voucher law exists in most communities, … [Read more...] about “Needed Element: Laws Prohibiting Source of Income Discrimination” by Libby Perl (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
“Getting the Politics Right on a National Gautreaux Program” by Sheryll Cashin (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By Sheryll Cashin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Alex Polikoff has provided an important national service in identifying the black ghetto as a singular, nation-threatening challenge that is also eminently redressable. His essay resonated greatly with me when I read it. After three years of working in the Clinton White House on urban policy and five years of … [Read more...] about “Getting the Politics Right on a National Gautreaux Program” by Sheryll Cashin (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
“We Must Acknowledge How Poor People Live” by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Polikoff offers a persuasive proposal to dismantle America’s ghettos. I leave to others a critique of its technocratic merits. Instead, I address the sociological underpinning, as it is a most elegant rendition of the liberal hymn for social justice. Polikoff’s spirited argument presupposes a folk … [Read more...] about “We Must Acknowledge How Poor People Live” by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
