We noted yesterday the United States Department of Justice brought suit alleging the City of New Berlin, Wisconsin had violated the…
Tag: Discrimination
DOJ to Intevene in Texas Developmental Disability Segregation Case
According to a press release by the US Department of Justice, the Justice Department today filed papers seeking to intervene…
Black-White Segregation in Small and Mid-sized Texas Cities
I realized that my last two posts on black/white segregation in Texas focused on data from the large urban centers…
ACS Segregation Data II
In a natural followup to yesterday’s post, Remapping Debate this morning released a look at the segregation patterns revealed…
The state of Black-White Segregation in Texas
Last month the Brookings Institution released a set of segregation measures about the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United…
Study: Leading Subsidized Housing Program in Texas Limits Economic Opportunity of the Poor
New report finds that Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing is more likely than other rental housing to be built…
Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears (another) hurdle
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the Inclusive Communities Project has legal standing…
You have to know someone to live here – disguised discrimination
This NYT article exposes an interesting method of discrimination which allegedly occurred in the Edgewater Park or Silver Beach Garden…
The Evolution of Housing Discrimination
It is important to remember that discrimination still exists as a sizeable barrier between low-income families and safe, affordable housing. …
Are Some Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances Promoting Racial Segregation?
Inclusionary zoning is a policy whereby a city or municipality mandates that a certain percentage of units in newly constructed…
Black children pay a high price for living in poverty neighborhoods
In the United States, living in a poor neighborhood often means living in an environment that is unhealthy and violent, and…
The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program
I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended a…
Lawsuit alleging race discrimination in Texas housing tax credit program clears hurdle
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas has denied a motion by the Texas Department of Housing…
North Texas emerges as ground zero in newly energized fight against racial housing segregation
North Texas is becoming ground zero in the fight against residential racial segregation. This thanks to the experienced and increasingly…
The Federal Reserve presents a tale of two Texas poverty neighborhoods
The Community Affairs Offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Brookings Institution have issued a report, “The Enduring Challenge…
New report says Dallas, Houston show increases in concentrated working poverty rates
According to a Brookings Institution study released this week, trends suggest that the decline in concentrated poverty that occurred during…
Dallas Morning News op-ed makes economic argument against housing segregation
An extensive opinion piece headlined, Poor assumptions: segregating poverty in Dallas is a money-losing proposition authored by Dallas Morning News…
Part 2: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
In the previous post I explored the debate and political process that went into the passage of the Fair Housing…
Part 1: 40 years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, still waiting for integrated communities
It is interesting and a little discouraging that on the 40th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, part of the…
Reporter alleges Section 8 tenant crime wave, but where is the evidence?
The elite media has decided to focus on whether Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders are bringing crime to suburban…
Poverty comes to the Texas suburbs
Wednesday’s blog post about the persistence of ghettos in Texas cities led me to do a little more research about…
The persistence of Texas ghettos is a problem for us all
Ghetto: a portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or…
Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas frozen and challanged in lawsuit
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in Dallas has been effectively shut down for several years and is now…
Houston’s fair housing failure segregates Katrina evacuees in SW slum apartments
Today’s dangerous housing problems in the Southwestern part of Houston have been greatly exacerbated by the actions of Houston city…
Unraveling the mystery of 500 unused Dallas Section 8 vouchers
The Dallas Morning News ran a story by Kim Horner on June 23 about 500 Section 8 vouchers that have…
Part 2: Housing segregation in Austin – a community blind to the problem
Watch my video blog or read the text below. Austin is a city of intense racial and economic segregation. Despite…
Part 1: Housing segregation in Austin – a product of government policy
Watch the slide show of racial and economic housing segregation and the current housing policy decisions of the City of…
Inclusionary zoning redux
The Texas Legislature last session made inclusionary zoning unlawful except in very limited circumstances. Inclusionary zoning is an essential tool…