Encouraging new housing choices: A new PRRAC research report, by Peter Rosenblatt and Jennifer Cossyleon at Loyola University-Chicago looks at the impacts of an innovative security deposit incentive program in Milwaukee County - "Take a Chance on Me": A Review of the Milwaukee County Security Deposit Assistance Program. With assistance from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 22, 2015): Security deposit incentives; LIHTC data release; yesterday’s S.Ct. argument
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“It Might Actually Work” by Pedro Noguera (March-April 2008 P&R Issue)
By Pedro Noguera (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Parents v. Seattle Schools, I have heard little more than anguish and frustration about this decision and its long‑term implications. In fact, most of the legal analysis I have read describes it as the death knell for serious efforts to promote racial integration in our … [Read more...] about “It Might Actually Work” by Pedro Noguera (March-April 2008 P&R Issue)
“Do We Still Have a Dream?” by Paul L. Wachtel (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By Paul L. Wachtel (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown perform a valuable service in reminding us of how the reality of daily life in America contradicts some of our society’s cherished illusions. But in referring to integration as an illusion there is also a problematic ambiguity that has a potential to impede the very struggle whose … [Read more...] about “Do We Still Have a Dream?” by Paul L. Wachtel (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown have made an important contribution with their trenchant analysis of where matters now stand in the long struggle for equality and racial integration. Sadly, race remains a seemingly intractable problem, an (perhaps the) American dilemma. W.E.B. DuBois’ observation … [Read more...] about “Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“H.R. 40: If Not Now, When?” by Jeanne Mirer (November-December 1994 P&R Issue)
By Jeanne Mirer (Click here to view the entire issue) In 1977, I had to fly to a city in the Midwest. The cab driver who picked me up at the airport got chatty and asked me where I was from. When I said "Detroit," he asked, "which suburb?" I said, "I live in the city." He then said to me, "How do you stand it? There are so many niggers there." Obviously, because I was … [Read more...] about “H.R. 40: If Not Now, When?” by Jeanne Mirer (November-December 1994 P&R Issue)
