Ms. Fogel-Bublick: We are writing to commend the Senate Banking Committee on its inclusion of several important fair housing provisions in the draft Section 8 Voucher Reform Act bill that was recently circulated. The Section 8 program was originally designed to expand housing choices for low-income families, and it remains the most effective means for poor families who seek … [Read more...] about PRRAC and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights SEVRA Letter and Attachment (October 2007)
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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)
Civil Rights Implications of the 2005 Flexible Voucher Bill (April 2005)
In its proposed “State and Local Housing Flexibility Act of 2005”, S. 771, the Administration has revived its 2004 proposal for a “Flexible Voucher Program.” This bill would place new obstacles in the path of low-income families seeking to move to lower poverty communities, and by eliminating the current system of “income targeting” of vouchers towards the neediest families in … [Read more...] about Civil Rights Implications of the 2005 Flexible Voucher Bill (April 2005)
“Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Howard Winant (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) If Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown are correct that the elimination of Jim Crow did not really occur, then what did happen in the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights era? By the Color of Our Skin sounds quite familiar, perhaps because there isn’t anything really new here. Many academics and activists have made … [Read more...] about “Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“Apology/Acknowledgement Is Imperative” by Theodore M. Shaw (November-December 1994 P&R Issue)
By Theodore M. Shaw (Click here to view the entire issue) One hundred and thirty years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, the issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves is a subject of discussion in some quarters. Some argue that the United States' failure to compensate African Americans for the wrongs of slavery leaves unfinished business on the … [Read more...] about “Apology/Acknowledgement Is Imperative” by Theodore M. Shaw (November-December 1994 P&R Issue)
