Brown and Milliken in the new P&R: The latest edition of Poverty & Race includes a powerful set of reflections on the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and Milliken v. Bradley on their respective 70th and 50th anniversaries. If you read nothing else this spring on the Brown anniversary, you should read these essays! Thanks to Jenna Tomasello, NCSD’s Communications Manager, for coordinating this special issue.
Housing-schools collaborations: As earlier reported, we were excited to see the Department of Education include collaboration with housing and transportation agencies as a competitive priority in the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP). To support this effort, we released a fact sheet to assist MSAP applicants, “How magnet schools might collaborate across housing and transportation agencies to enhance school diversity efforts.”
Other news and resources
An AFFH typology: The Redress Movement has published a useful “policy toolbox” that describes local policies that can be pursued to promote fair housing in six different types of communities. Although fair housing planning is ideally regional in scope, the community-focused policy options laid out here will be a great tool for local organizing.
50 years of exclusionary zoning litigation: Robert Schwemm has published an historical review of the Arlington Heights cases and the ongoing legal barriers to address metropolitan segregation through zoning litigation. See “Reflections on Arlington Heights: Fifty Years of Exclusionary Zoning Litigation and Beyond”
Grants Pass: Thank you to the National Homelessness Law Center and the many other groups that came together in an extraordinary amicus campaign in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a local ordinance in Grants Pass, Oregon that criminalizes homeless people who are forced to sleep outside because no housing or shelter is available. According to NHLC, 42 separate amicus briefs were filed, representing over 1100 groups and public figures (we joined the Lawyers Committee’s brief).
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