Dan Rinzler is Special Projects Coordinator at the Low Income Investment Fund Mary Cunningham is a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute Phil Tegeler is Executive Director at the Poverty & Race Research Action Council The Challenge: Concentrated Poverty is Bad for Health Neighborhoods play a central role in brokering Americans’ access to … [Read more...] about Using Pay for Success to Enable Healthy Housing Choices (Nonprofit Finance Fund)
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The Diverse Suburbs Movement Has Never Been More Relevant (CityLab)
By Amy Stuart Wells, CityLab At a time when thousands of American suburbs like Ferguson, Missouri, are gaining more and more black and Hispanic families, the killing of Michael Brown this summer and the frustration that poured onto suburban streets afterward should prompt officials across the country to rethink their responses to demographic change. … [Read more...] about The Diverse Suburbs Movement Has Never Been More Relevant (CityLab)
Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)
By Philip Tegeler (PRRAC) and Barbara Sard (CBPP) Ideally, our federal rental housing programs should give low-income children and their families the opportunity to live in safe, healthy neighborhoods with access to high performing schools. However, our housing programs are not currently well-structured to achieve this goal. The unbalanced distribution of subsidized … [Read more...] about Children and Housing Vouchers (NYU Furman Center)
Cross Burning in Harvard Yard? (Harvard Crimson)
By Chester Hartman, PRRAC Hard to believe that it happened, but it did. Around midnight on Feb. 5, 1952, a cross was burned in front of Stoughton Hall, where the 11 black members of the Harvard Class of 1955 lived. The incident was perpetrated by two freshmen, whose names the Harvard administration kept secret, and whose punishment was very light: probation, nothing further … [Read more...] about Cross Burning in Harvard Yard? (Harvard Crimson)
The RAD-ical Shifts to Public Housing (American Prospect)
By Rachel M. Cohen, American Prospect It could be more cost-effective to just appropriate more direct funds to the program and keep it in the public sector, but Congress is not about to do so. … [Read more...] about The RAD-ical Shifts to Public Housing (American Prospect)
