In the new Poverty & Race: Reflections on the Long Island racial steering expose; STEM and school integration; and California’s progressive housing agenda. See the new issue here.
The proposed AFFH rule is even worse than we expected: In contravention of the Fair Housing Act, the proposed rule eliminates any requirements to redress or analyze racial or economic segregation, it rolls back even the weak accountability requirements that have been in place since Secretary Carson’s wholesale suspension of the rule in 2018, and it effectively exempts PHAs from any meaningful AFFH review. How can this be legal? (we’ll see…) See our statement here and comments can be submitted through this portal: https://www.fightforhousingjustice.org/affh-comment.
Webinar on schools and housing: PRRAC and Opportunity Starts at Home are joining the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in a webinar next Tuesday on connections between housing and school policy, with concrete ideas on what local agencies and educators can do to improve outcomes for children. Register here.
Other news and resources
Searching for housing with a voucher: The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica have put together a compelling story of one mother’s difficult (and ultimately successful) quest for a home for her family, profiling our 2017 client Crystal Carter (in OCA v. Carson).
Funders for Housing & Opportunity is hiring a program officer – an exciting opportunity in philanthropy for people interested in housing policy, civil rights, and organizing. See the posting here.
