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  • Billions in School Construction in CT Hasn’t Made a Dent in Segregation — But This Year, Things Could Be Different (Connecticut Mirror) January 4, 2021
  • Education Dept. Gets $73.5 Billion in Funding Deal That Ends Ban on Federal Aid for Busing (Education Week) December 22, 2020
  • Massachusetts’ Public Schools are Highly Segregated. It’s Time We Treated That Like the Crisis It Is (Boston Globe) December 11, 2020
  • Opinion: A Truly Life-Changing Voucher Program is Within Reach for Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (Cleveland.com) October 12, 2020
  • Warren, Pressley, Lee Introduce Legislation to Confront the Public Health Impacts of Structural Racism (warren.senate.gov) September 3, 2020
  • What is the Fair Housing Rule and How Will its Repeal Affect Philly? (Philadelphia Inquirer) August 2, 2020
  • Envisioning Higher Education as Antiracist (Inside Higher Ed) July 2, 2020
  • ‘One Paycheck Away’ from Homelessness: Housing Inequality Fuels U.S. Protests (Reuters) June 3, 2020
  • Commentary: Ending Housing Discrimination Against Those Who Use Federal Vouchers (Baltimore Sun) March 11, 2020
  • They’ve Put Up with Leaks, Mold, Insects, Mice. Now These Tenants Face Eviction (Kansas City Star) February 17, 2020
  • Atlanta to Make All Landlords Accept Housing Vouchers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) February 17, 2020
  • Bill Would Free Landlords in Des Moines, Other Cities to Reject Section 8 Housing Vouchers (Des Moines Register) February 17, 2020
  • HUD Should Scrap its New Fair Housing Plan (American Banker) January 17, 2020
  • Moving On Up: A Project to Place Public Housing Tenants in Better Neighborhoods Gets a Boost (Dallas Observer) January 14, 2020
  • How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out (Pro Publica / Connecticut Mirror) January 9, 2020
  • Housing Groups Want to Ban This ‘Unnecessary Hurdle’ for Renters with Vouchers (Charlotte Observer) December 16, 2019
  • Vouchers Can Help the Poor Find Homes. But Landlords Often Won’t Accept Them. (Vox) December 10, 2019
  • Your Money’s No Good Here: Combatting Source of Income Discrimination in Housing (ABA Human Rights Magazine) December 6, 2019
  • DeVos Proposes Department Spinoff to Handle Student Loans (Politico Morning Education Newsletter) December 4, 2019
  • Closed Doors: CMHA Works to Improve Voucher Program; Advocates Push for Discrimination Protections (The Plain Dealer) November 24, 2019
  • D.C. Is Rapidly Gentrifying and the Fate of its Affordable Housing Hangs in the Balance (Washington City Paper) November 14, 2019
  • Black Children More Likely to Live in ‘Concentrated Poverty’ (WHSV 3 – Harrisonburg, VA) November 5, 2019
  • Events: Come Together to Understand the Forces that Pull us Apart (Greater Greater Washington) September 16, 2019
  • The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Health Can Reverberate for Decades (The Hill Opinion) August 27, 2019
  • Why Housing Vouchers Fail to Help Clevelanders Escape Poverty, and How We Can Do Better: Leila Atassi (Cleveland.com) August 20, 2019
  • Who’s to Blame When Algorithms Discriminate? (New York Times) August 20, 2019
  • The Trump Administration’s Assault on Fair Housing (Take Care Blog) August 19, 2019
  • How HUD Could Dismantle a Pillar of Civil Rights Law (CityLab) August 16, 2019
  • Progress on Fair Housing Front (Investigative Post) August 7, 2019
  • A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America (Medium) August 6, 2019
  • How a Section 8 Experiment Could Reveal a Better Way to Escape Poverty (CityLab) August 4, 2019
  • Guest Blog Post: Of Schools, Busing, Integration And Outdated Federal Policy (The School Superintendents Blog) July 29, 2019
  • What It Means When Democratic Frontrunners Say They Support the Strength in Diversity Act (Chalkbeat) July 12, 2019
  • Segregation Has Soared in America’s Schools as Federal Leaders Largely Looked Away (LA Times) July 8, 2019
  • “Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question (New York Times) July 6, 2019
  • SPLC Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Workplace Protections for LGBTQ People (Southern Poverty Law Center) July 3, 2019
  • Why School Busing Still Matters (Politico) June 29, 2019
  • Anti-Busing Law Dating from the 1970s Eyed for Elimination (Politico) June 13, 2019
  • DC Draws on Resident Input for Multiyear Plan to Overcome Barriers to Fair Housing (DC Line) May 29, 2019
  • Baltimore Bans Source-of-Income Discrimination, But There’s a Big Catch (Next City) May 2, 2019
  • Providence Mulls Ban on Landlords Refusing Section 8 Vouchers (Providence WPRI Channel 12) March 20, 2019
  • A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case (The Nation) February 11, 2019
  • Preventing Discrimination or Burdensome Regulation? City, Landlords Going to Court over Section 8 Law (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) February 10, 2019
  • See How Landlords Pack Section 8 Renters Into Poorer Neighborhoods (CityLab) January 9, 2019
  • Housing Vouchers Mostly Move Families into Impoverished Neighborhoods, Even When Better Apartments Exist Elsewhere (Washington Post) January 3, 2019
  • Northern Virginia Property Owners are Delighted Amazon HQ2 is Moving In. Renters, First-Time Buyers, and Low-Income Residents Aren’t. What Might Happen if Amazon Moves to Your City? Will Amazon’s HQ2 be a Good Neighbor or a Nightmare? (Washington Post) November 13, 2018
  • Elizabeth Warren Introduces Plan to Expand Affordable Housing and Dismantle Racist Zoning Practices (The Intercept) September 28, 2018
  • Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis (The Atlantic) September 25, 2018
  • Getting a Section 8 Voucher Is Hard. Finding a Landlord Willing to Accept It Is Harder. (Pew Stateline) August 31, 2018
  • ‘Section 8 Need Not Apply’: States and Cities Outlaw Housing Discrimination (Governing Magazine) August 29, 2018
  • Ben Carson’s Drive to Further Segregate Housing Gets a Boost in Court (The Intercept) August 20, 2018
  • HUD Seeks to Ease Fair Housing Rule’s Burden on Local Governments (American Banker) August 13, 2018
  • Building Highways Made Racial Segregation Worse. Can Removing Them Undo That Legacy? (StreetsBlogUSA) June 7, 2018
  • Housing Mobility Programs And Health Outcomes (HealthAffairs) June 7, 2018
  • Trump Administration Sued After it Changes Rules About Housing Segregation (ThinkProgress) May 8, 2018
  • As Fair Housing Act Turns 50, Landmark Law Faces Uncertain Future (Governing Magazine) April 1, 2018
  • Revised Federal Housing Subsidies Offer Mobility to Low-Income Residents (Christian Science Monitor) February 13, 2018
  • Hoping to Reduce Segregation, U.S. Revamps Housing Subsidy for the Poor (Reuters) February 12, 2018
  • How New Rules for Section 8 Voucher Payments Mean More Mobility for Voucher Holders (Next City) January 26, 2018
  • As Ben Carson Signals Fair Housing Rollback, Advocates Call on Mayor Kenney to Put Forward a ‘Bigger and Bolder Vision’ (PlanPhilly) January 15, 2018
  • The Trump Administration Just Derailed a Key Obama Rule on Housing Segregation (CityLab) January 4, 2018
  • Under Lingering Obama Initiative, NYC to Evaluate Fair Housing (The City Limits) January 2, 2018
  • Hundreds of thousands of poor Americans will soon be able to move to better areas, thanks to this judge (Washington Post) December 28, 2017
  • The Fight Over Fair Housing Goes to Court (Again) (CityLab) November 7, 2017
  • 1,500 Affordable Housing Units Headed for Baltimore Could Multiply (Next City) October 24, 2017
  • It Doesn’t Matter if Cities Are Climate Change–Proof if No One Can Afford to Live in Them (The Nation) October 24, 2017
  • Civil Rights Groups Sue Ben Carson for Delaying Anti-Segregation Housing Reform (The Intercept) October 23, 2017
  • Civil Right Groups Accuse HUD of Perpetuating Racial Segregation (Politico) October 23, 2017
  • Desegregated, Differently (American Prospect) October 18, 2017
  • Netflix Documentary on School Integration Spotlights New York City but Troubles Some Activists (Chalkbeat) October 13, 2017
  • Maryland Reaches Fair Housing Agreement with Federal Government (Baltimore Sun) October 3, 2017
  • Health, Housing, and Civil Rights Strategies (Grantmakers – Health Newsletter) September 1, 2017
  • Trump Administration Puts on Hold an Obama-Era Desegregation Effort (The Atlantic) August 30, 2017
  • ‘Parents Involved,’ A Decade Later (The American Prospect) June 28, 2017
  • One Big Fix for the City Schools: More Racial Integration (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) May 28, 2017
  • Does the DeVos Education Budget Promote “Choice” or Segregation? (PhilanTopic) May 24, 2017
  • Is HUD’s Fair Housing Rule Here to Stay?(Next City) May 2, 2017
  • The New Champions of School Integration (The Atlantic) April 6, 2017
  • Who’s Following Ben Carson? (CityLab) April 4, 2017
  • Trump’s Education Department Nixes Obama-Era Grant Program for School Diversity (Washington Post) March 29, 2017
  • How Betsy DeVos Could End the School-Integration Comeback (The Atlantic) March 20, 2017
  • Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor (Hartford Courant) March 14, 2017
  • In Hartford, ‘Integrated’ Schools Remain Highly Segregated (Hartford Courant) March 13, 2017
  • How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable (Spotlight on Poverty) March 1, 2017
  • State Sued over Housing Discrimination Law (Houston Chronicle) February 17, 2017
  • How Ben Carson Could Undo a Desegregation Effort (New York Times) November 23, 2016
  • What’s at Stake in Trump’s Pick to Lead HUD (CityLab) November 11, 2016
  • Healing Must Follow Talks on Race (Kansas City Star) June 28, 2016
  • ‘Inequity in Our Region is Literally Killing Our Children’ (St. Louis American) June 17, 2016
  • Millennials Have Lived Through a Doubling of School Segregation (The Nation) June 15, 2016
  • Hartford School Chief Says Budget Woes Will Impact Desegregation Efforts (CT Mirror) May 20, 2016
  • Taking Housing, Education Equity Beyond the School Doors (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) May 6, 2016
  • 21 People, Moments and Ideas that Defined Milwaukee: Part 3 (On Milwaukee) April 1, 2016
  • Why Flint’s Children Can’t Leave the City that Poisoned Them (Washington Post) March 4, 2016
  • The Section 8 Voucher Trap (New Republic) February 18, 2016
  • Tickets Out of Poverty? Housing Voucher Recipients Can Move to Better Neighborhoods Only if States and Localities Break Down Suburban Barriers (American Prospect) February 8, 2016
  • School Desegregation Lawsuit Threatens Charters (American Prospect) January 26, 2016
  • Housing Vouchers and Poverty Concentration in New Orleans (Nonprofit Quarterly) January 21, 2016
  • Housing Policies Still Pin Poor in Baltimore, but Some Escape to Suburbs (Baltimore Sun) December 15, 2015
  • Discussion On School Diversity Held In Glastonbury (Hartford Courant) November 17, 2015
  • Segregation Is Alive And Well In The Public School System, And These Students Are Dealing With It (ThinkProgress) November 9, 2015
  • Will John King’s Last Effort to Desegregate New York’s Schools Work? (Chalkbeat) October 7, 2015
  • Tapped: The Prospect Group Blog–Challenges to John King’s Integration Pilot (American Prospect) October 7, 2015
  • How a Housing Program Can Save Medicaid Money (Governing Magazine) September 24, 2015
  • Money for Mobility: Inside a New Push to Get Poor Families to Better Neighborhoods (Inside Philanthropy) September 16, 2015
  • Obama’s Mixed Record on School Integration (American Prospect) August 30, 2015
  • We Must Not Give in to Economic Segregation (Next City) August 18, 2015
  • Could Pay for Success Increase Housing Mobility? Some Funders Want to Find Out (Inside Philanthropy) August 14, 2015
  • Where Should a Poor Family Live? (New York Times) August 5, 2015
  • Moving to End Housing Segregation (New York Times-Letter to the Editor) July 18, 2015
  • Past an Invisible Fence: Gauging Obama’s New Housing Rule (NBC News) July 12, 2015
  • New Coalition Promotes Diverse Student Populations in Charter Schools (Education Week) July 1, 2015
  • How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor (CityLab) June 24, 2015
  • HUD Considers Change to Section 8 Rents (Baltimore Sun) June 10, 2015
  • Universal Pre-K’s Integration Problem: Bill de Blasio’s Admirable and Promising Program Should be Doing a Better Job Mixing Kids of Different Backgrounds (NY Daily News) May 16, 2015
  • The Stark Inequality of U.S. Public Schools, Mapped (CityLab) May 14, 2015
  • Girls In Minority-Heavy High Schools Face Profound Lack of Sports Opportunities (Forbes) April 30, 2015
  • Racial and Economic Segregation Starts in Preschool, Study Finds (Education Week) April 29, 2015
  • Minority Girls Given Fewer Chances in School Sports, Report Says (Boston Globe) April 27, 2015
  • If You Are A Girl And Would Like To Play Sports, It Helps To Be White (ThinkProgress) April 23, 2015
  • Minority Girls in Louisiana aren’t Getting Equal Chances to Play High School Sports, Report Says (The Times Picayune) April 21, 2015
  • EHOC Conference Addresses Modern Segregation, Why the Section 8 Program Isn’t Working (St. Louis American) April 10, 2015
  • Fair Housing Conference Focuses on School Segregation, Occupancy Permits (St. Louis Public Radio) April 10, 2015
  • Federal Judge Declines to Block City ‘Source of Income’ Ordinance (Austin Statesman) March 3, 2015
  • This Supreme Court Decision Could Encourage One Of The Worst Forms Of Racism (Huffington Post) February 17, 2015
  • The Supreme Court May Soon Disarm the Single Best Weapon for Desegregating U.S. Housing (Washington Post) January 21, 2015
  • Which Funders Are Battling Today’s Forms of Segregation? (Inside Philanthropy) January 19, 2015
  • Who Gets to Live Where?: The Battle Over Affordable Housing (Al Jazeera America) January 18, 2015
  • A Supreme Court Case that Public Education Advocates Should be Watching (Washington Post) January 13, 2015
  • Social Justice Folks Size up New Congress (National Catholic Reporter) January 12, 2015
  • Hunting for Housing: Landlord Lawsuit and Housing Research Frame Housing Crisis (Austin Chronicle) January 9, 2015
  • NYS Schools to Receive Grants to Promote Socioeconomic Integration (LongIsland.com) December 31, 2014
  • Civil Rights Groups Stand in Solidarity and Awe of Young Activists in Ferguson (W.K. Kellogg Foundation) November 7, 2014
  • Using Pay for Success to Enable Healthy Housing Choices (Nonprofit Finance Fund) October 21, 2014
  • The Diverse Suburbs Movement Has Never Been More Relevant (CityLab) October 13, 2014
  • Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center) October 1, 2014
  • Cross Burning in Harvard Yard? (Harvard Crimson) September 17, 2014
  • The RAD-ical Shifts to Public Housing (American Prospect) August 28, 2014
  • Julian Castro Should Visit Baltimore on the Way to His New HUD Secretary Desk (Next City) July 11, 2014
  • Housing Segregation is Holding Back the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education (Washington Post) May 15, 2014
  • In Pursuit of a “Both/And” Housing Policy–The Case of Housing Choice Vouchers (Shelterforce) April 7, 2014
  • Are the Obama administration’s ‘Promise Zones’ a promising anti-poverty strategy? (Washington Post) October 11, 2013
  • Memo to Department of Education: Diverse Classrooms Create a Better America (Huffington Post) October 7, 2013
  • New Report Demonstrates Persistence of Housing Discrimination But Understates the True Extent of It (Huffington Post) August 17, 2013
  • Good News and Serious Challenges in Brookings Report on Suburban Poverty (Huffington Post) May 21, 2013
  • HUD Salutes Low-income Families Moving to Opportunity (Huffington Post) April 15, 2013
  • Housing Choice Vouchers Don’t Lead to Better Education (Huffington Post) February 3, 2013
  • Diverse Classrooms Also Benefit White Students (Huffington Post) January 3, 2013
  • S.F. Called Model for Affordable Housing (San Francisco Gate) November 27, 2012
  • Studies Spotlight Charters Designed for Integration (Education Week) June 1, 2012
  • Moving Evicted Tenants is Big Business (Michigan Local News) January 9, 2012
  • A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods (New York Times) February 8, 2010
  • The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration (Center for American Progress) March 21, 2007
  • Panel: Despite Sheff v. O’Neill, School Segregation Has Not Eased (UConn Advance) November 28, 2006

 

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PRRAC Op-Eds and Blogs

Your Money’s No Good Here: Combatting Source of Income Discrimination in Housing (ABA Human Rights Magazine)

December 6, 2019

The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Health Can Reverberate for Decades (The Hill Opinion)

August 27, 2019

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Fair Housing (Take Care Blog)

August 19, 2019

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

July 29, 2019

Health, Housing, and Civil Rights Strategies (Grantmakers – Health Newsletter)

September 1, 2017

Stacking the Deck: The Regulatory Accountability Act’s Threat to Civil Rights (American Prospect)

August 24, 2017

Does the DeVos Education Budget Promote “Choice” or Segregation? (PhilanTopic)

May 24, 2017

How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable (Spotlight on Poverty)

March 1, 2017

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

July 18, 2015

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

October 21, 2014

Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)

October 1, 2014

Cross Burning in Harvard Yard? (Harvard Crimson)

September 17, 2014

In Pursuit of a “Both/And” Housing Policy–The Case of Housing Choice Vouchers (Shelterforce)

April 7, 2014

Memo to Department of Education: Diverse Classrooms Create a Better America (Huffington Post)

October 7, 2013

New Report Demonstrates Persistence of Housing Discrimination But Understates the True Extent of It (Huffington Post)

August 17, 2013

Good News and Serious Challenges in Brookings Report on Suburban Poverty (Huffington Post)

May 21, 2013

HUD Salutes Low-income Families Moving to Opportunity (Huffington Post)

April 15, 2013

Housing Choice Vouchers Don’t Lead to Better Education (Huffington Post)

February 3, 2013

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