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)
PRRAC Op-Eds and Blogs
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)
In Pursuit of a “Both/And” Housing Policy–The Case of Housing Choice Vouchers (Shelterforce)
By Philip Tegeler, PRRAC Readers of Shelterforce are accustomed to seeing commentary about the perceived tension between community development and housing mobility. Almost everyone agrees at this point that there is a place for both strategies in a balanced, “both/and” low-income housing policy. There is some disagreement about how much “balance” the various players in the … [Read more...] about In Pursuit of a “Both/And” Housing Policy–The Case of Housing Choice Vouchers (Shelterforce)
Memo to Department of Education: Diverse Classrooms Create a Better America (Huffington Post)
By Philip Tegeler, PRRAC The value of integrated schools was hotly debated in the 60s and 70s, as federal courts forced many urban school districts to desegregate their classrooms. Today, with our schools more segregated than they were in the 1980s, the interest in integrated education is heating up again, as evidence mounts that children of color, as well as white students, … [Read more...] about Memo to Department of Education: Diverse Classrooms Create a Better America (Huffington Post)
