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PRESS RELEASE: Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families

October 23, 2017 by

October 23, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, several civil rights organizations sued the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) challenging its decision to suspend a rule that would have assisted low-income families in securing affordable housing. Five organizations – the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC law … [Read more...] about PRESS RELEASE: Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families

A National Opportunity Voucher Program: A Bridge to Quality, Integrated Education for Low-Income Children (July 2009)

July 1, 2009 by

A new national “Opportunity Voucher” program would set aside 50,000 vouchers per year to help low-income families and children in high poverty, segregated neighborhoods move to higher opportunity communities with low poverty, high performing schools. This program builds on the success of the famous “Gautreaux” housing mobility program in Chicago, and would be administered by … [Read more...] about A National Opportunity Voucher Program: A Bridge to Quality, Integrated Education for Low-Income Children (July 2009)

“Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)

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By David Rusk (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) What my colleague john powell has termed creating “opportunity-based housing” is the goal of Alex Polikoff’s call for a sustained, Gautreaux-type program of 100,000 federal housing vouchers a year to relocate poor black families from high-poverty, opportunity-poor ghettoes to low-poverty, opportunity-rich … [Read more...] about “Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)

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