Greater Greater Washington: This Congress Heights housing will be permanently affordable
After two years of independently led organizing, the residents of Savannah Apartments are finally able to secure permanent affordability for their homes.
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After two years of independently led organizing, the residents of Savannah Apartments are finally able to secure permanent affordability for their homes.
According to one just-released study, original residents gain more from gentrification than the traditional neighborhood narrative lets on, and the harms of gentrification, while hard to fully gauge, may not be so severe for original residents, especially for those who stay but even for those who choose to leave.
CityLab: The hidden winners in neighborhood gentrification Read More »
Protests demanding the immediate resignation of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló erupted for a third day Monday night, with police in riot gear creating a human barricade outside of the governor’s mansion and launching tear gas and pepper spray into the crowd.
Wisconsin is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, so much so that someone earning the minimum wage can’t afford a basic two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the state.
WPR News: Wisconsin’s minimum wage workers locked out of affordable housing Read More »
The school district alone, despite a student population of fewer than 200, envelopes 553 square miles of grass and sand and sky, spanning two time zones and three area codes. The buses of Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools travel a combined 312 miles every day along quiet highways and country roads. And it’s not just bus drivers who are hard to come by. No bus driver will stay on for more than two or three trips.
Pacific Standard: Educational fight or flight Read More »
When talking about school-aged children, the ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂbenefits of mixing kids from different class backgrounds are substantial and well-documented. But for kids too young for kindergarten, the effects of economic integration are far from understood.
Citylab: How US childcare is segregated: A Brooklyn story Read More »
An expert found that New York City housing policy deepens segregation, but City Hall wanted the report kept secret.
The fear of being evicted or being denied a mortgage, not only limits an individual’s housing choices, but also makes it difficult to buy a house or rent an apartment because evictions show up on rental history background checks and can also affect credit score, and without a mortgage, purchasing a home is nearly impossible.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today issued an updated advisory  to financial institutions urging them to report to the appropriate local, state and federal authorities whenever they suspect that an older adult is the target or victim of financial exploitation.
For more than four decades, U.S. law has required banks to lend fairly and equitably. So do they? If Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the world might never know.
Bloomberg: What does Trump have against fair lending? Read More »
Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous.
The Washington Post: Tennessee just showed that white supremacy is alive and well Read More »
Homeownership rate for Hispanics has increased more in recent years than any ethnic group.
Wall Street Journal: Wave of Hispanic buyers boosts U.S. housing market Read More »
Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.
The New York Times: It was never about busing Read More »
Minneapolis just did away with the rules that gave single-family homes a stranglehold on nearly three-quarters of the city by abolishing single-family-home zoning and allowing duplexes and triplexes to be built anywhere in the city.
When Kamala Harris used the first Democratic presidential debate to skewer the former vice president over his civil-rights record, Biden seemed floored. He found himself face-to-face with something politicos had thought extinct: a busing defender.
The Atlantic: The white suburbs that fought busing aren’t so white anymore Read More »