By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Gate Nearly 50 years of protests, lawsuits and ballot battles over low-income housing have made San Francisco a nationwide model for efforts to keep urban America from becoming home to only the very rich or the very poor, according to a paper that will be released Wednesday. … [Read more...] about S.F. Called Model for Affordable Housing (San Francisco Gate)
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Studies Spotlight Charters Designed for Integration (Education Week)
By Jaclyn Zubrzycki, Education Week Nearly six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ushered in an era of efforts to integrate public schools, charter school advocates and researchers are shining a light on a number of those independent public schools that are integrated by design. … [Read more...] about Studies Spotlight Charters Designed for Integration (Education Week)
Moving Evicted Tenants is Big Business (Michigan Local News)
By The Associated Press, Michigan Local News U.S. & World News (Mlive) - Property owners across the country bear a burden from the recession: paying a fortune in moving and storage costs to evict tenants who fail to pay their rent. But the owners' losses are a boon for the companies that clear out homes. Their business has skyrocketed, "making money out of people's … [Read more...] about Moving Evicted Tenants is Big Business (Michigan Local News)
A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods (New York Times)
By Erik Eckholm, New York Times Milwaukee, WI (U.S) - Compared with foreclosures, which are carefully tracked, national data on evictions, especially those not involving a court decision, remain scarce, but the annual total is almost certainly in the millions, said Chester Hartman, an urban planner with the Poverty and Race Research Action Council in Washington. … [Read more...] about A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods (New York Times)
The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration (Center for American Progress)
By William L. Taylor, Dianne M. Piché, Crystal Rosario, and Joseph D. Rich (Center for American Progress) Report of the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights with the assistance of the Center for American Progress - Philip Tegeler, Executive Director of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, explains why equal opportunity housing programs at the Department of Housing … [Read more...] about The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration (Center for American Progress)
