Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Adria Crutchfield, Ann Lott, and Valerie Rosenberg Housing mobility programs provide support and information that fundamentally increase choice and self-determination for voucher holders. This is a benefit in and of itself, but we know, too, that such choice … [Read more...] about Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Housing-Schools Nexus Articles (via Poverty & Race)
How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) By Reggie Jackson and Bo McMillan The Redress Movement is an emerging racial justice organization that aims to organize racially and ethnically diverse local movements in communities throughout the U.S. We help residents to build and wield collective power needed … [Read more...] about How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
The structure of public education in the U.S., with its unequal funding, enrollment rights tied to property, and de facto segregation has created a system where high-opportunity schools are a scarce resource to be hoarded. The resources provided to individual schools and the opportunities gained from them vary widely, making resource-rich, high-opportunity schools a … [Read more...] about Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
“Long Island High School Students Advocate for Housing and School Integration” by Elaine Gross (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)
By Elaine Gross (click here for the PDF) Once a month, high school students from across New York’s Long Island, one of the ten most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the nation, gather to share their experiences with racial segregation, gain from each other’s insights, and discuss action steps for effecting change. They gather as members of the Student Task Force of … [Read more...] about “Long Island High School Students Advocate for Housing and School Integration” by Elaine Gross (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)
Excerpt: “Between the Lines” (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)
(Click here for the PDF) ANDREW (ACTOR 4): We’ve kind of divorced the racist language from it, but the outcome is the same. So you don’t have to say, “I want to go to a White school or live in a White neighborhood”; you can talk about “Oh, I’m just concerned about my property values going up or down” and really what you’re talking about is race but you don’t have to talk … [Read more...] about Excerpt: “Between the Lines” (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)
