Recent Advocacy from the Title VI Alliance
- Letter to HUD re Civil Rights in CDBG Disaster Recovery Administration (Title VI Alliance, February 2023)
- RE: Comments on EPA’s Civil Rights Obligations in Designing and Implementing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (Title VI Alliance, December 2022)
- ECRCO Affirmative Compliance Selection Review (Title VI Alliance, February 2022)
- Environmental Justice and Civil Rights with Appendices to Administrator Regan (w/ Appendices) (Title VI Alliance, November 2021)
Publications and Policy Briefs
- 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Positions on Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Related Housing Issues (Lily Milwit, Megan Haberle, & Ndidi Anekwe, September 2019)
- Strategies for Health Justice: Lessons from the Field (Edited by Megan Haberle & Heidi Kurniawan, November 2018)
- The Call for Environmental Justice Legislation: An Annotated Bibliography (Jennifer Bisgaier & Jennifer Pollan, July 2018)
- Deconstructing Segregation in Syracuse? The Fate of I-81 and the Future of One of New York State’s Highest Poverty Communities (Anthony Armstrong & Make Communities, May 2018)
- Fair Housing and Environmental Justice: New Strategies and Challenges (Megan Haberle, January 2018)
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: A Platform for Public Health Advocates (Philip Tegeler & Brian Smedley, June 2016)
- Comments on Federal Transit Administration Proposed Rule on Transit Oriented Development (March 2012)
- Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives (Health Policy Institute, Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, PRRAC, the Opportunity Agenda, and Alliance for Healthy Homes, July 2008).
- CERD Health Report: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States (January 2008)
- Rebuilding a Healthy New Orleans : Final Conference Report of the New Orleans Health Disparities Initiative (PRRAC, Alliance for Healthy Homes, the Center for Social Inclusion, & the Health Policy Institute, May 2007)
- There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina (Edited by Gregory Squires & Chester Hartman, 2006)
- Equity Considerations in Climate Adaptation Plans: A Call for Advocacy (Peter Kye, October 2017)
- Moving to Healthier Neighborhoods: Options for Local Advocacy (Meghan Hottel, Philip Tegeler, and Megan Haberle, May 2014)
- Two Simple Changes to Improve Health Outcomes In the Section 8 Voucher Program (April 2011)
- Prescription for a New Neighborhood? Housing Vouchers as a Public Health Intervention (Kami Kruckenberg & Philip Tegeler, July 2010)
Older Advocacy
- On Proposed NEPA Implementing Regulations Revisions (Title VI Alliance, December 2022) (NAACP LDF, PRRAC, et al, November 2021)
- EPA Strategic Plan (Title VI Alliance, November 2021)
- Advancing Health, Environmental, and Housing Justice Together: Recommendations for HUD (NAACP LDF, PRRAC, et al, June 2021)
- Support for the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act, H.R. 2574 (PRRAC et al, September 2020)
- On New Federal Strategy to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures (Title VI Alliance, November 2017)
- To USCCR on Environmental Justice Enforcement at the EPA (Title VI Alliance, August 2017)
- Revised AFFH PHA Tool (PRRAC et al, October 2016)
- Revised Assessment of Fair Housing Tool – Local Jurisdictions (PRRAC et al, September 2016)
- Incorporating the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Obligation into EPA’s 2020 Environmental Justice Action Agenda (PRRAC et al, July 2016)
- On the Department of Interior Environmental Justice Plan (Title VI Alliance, May 2016)
- Fair Housing Comments on the Capital Magnet Fund Interim Rule (PRRAC et al, May 2016)
- EPA-HUD AFFH Coordination (Title VI Alliance, March 2016)
- HUD’s Responsibility to Residents of Flint, Michigan (PRRAC & LCCUL, March 2016)
- Shriver Center/Loyola Petition for Rulemaking on Lead-Based Paint Protocols (PRRAC et al, February 2016)
- DOT Proposed Rule on Statewide Metropolitan Transportation Planning (PRRAC, October 2014)
- EPA Draft Title VI Policy Papers (Title VI Alliance, March 2013)
- Transportation Equity Caucus on FTA New Starts Guidance (PRRAC et al, March 2013)
- EPA Draft Report, “Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities” (PRRAC et al, March 2012)
- Fair Housing Comments on HUD EJ Strategy (PRRAC et al, November 2011)
Related Poverty & Race Journal Articles
- Field Report: Deconstructing Segregation in Syracuse? (May 2018)
- “Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation as a Root Social Determinant of Public Health and Health Inequity: A Persistent Public Health Challenge in the United States” by Robert A. Hahn (April-June 2017)
- Major Title VI Agreement Reached in Corpus Christi by Joseph D. Rich (April-June 2016)
- Stealth Capture: The Civil Rights Movement and the Implementation of Medicare by David Barton Smith (April-June 2016)
- Equitable Transit Oriented Development (March 2015)
- Comments on DOT Proposed Rule on Statewide Metropolitan Transportation Planning (October 2014)
- “Title VI of the Civil Rights Act at 50: An Unfulfilled Promise at EPA” by Marianne Engelman Lado (July/August 2014)
- Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Los Angeles Celebrates Anniversaries of the Civil Rights Movement by Robert Garcia (July/August 2014)
- “Disadvantaged Communities Teach Regional Planners a Lesson in Equitable and Sustainable Development,” by Richard A. Marcantonio & Alex Karner (January 2014)
- Transportation Equity Caucus comments on FTA New Starts Guidance (March 2013)
- Comments on Federal Transit Administration proposed rule on transit oriented development (March 2012)
- PRRAC comments on EPA draft report, “Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities”(March 2012)
- Transit-Oriented Development in High Opportunity Communities (May 2011)
- Mossville, Louisiana: A Community’s Fight for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment by Michelle Robert (May/June 2011)
- The “Housing + Transportation Index” and Fair Housing (July 2010)
- Comment letter to Dept. of Transportation on Discretionary Grants NOFA (June 1, 2009)
- Letter to Secretaries Donovan and LaHood on smart growth and fair housing (April 6, 2009)
- Fair Housing and Transportation Principles (March 2009)
- Health Care and Indigenous People in the United States by Michael Yellow Bird (November/December 2008)
- Towards a Fair Health Movement: a special Poverty & Race Forum issue (September/October 2005)
- The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt, by Raymond Mohl (2002)
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