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Tag: Housing segregation
The 8 things I’ve learned in my 40+ years in housing and community development
I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housing…
49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods
Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…
Many present-day “Show Me a Hero” dynamics can be found in Texas
The HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero is over. The show concluded last week, wrapping up its immersive, deeply felt…
Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident
On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A community…
My remarks at the University of Texas School of Architecture commencement: “Hit a lick against what’s wrong or say a word for what’s right”
Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at the…
Homeownership and the racial wealth gap, in Houston and beyond
Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealth…
To this day some are lined up on the wrong side of the bridge, blocking the march to integration
Fifty years ago today, hundreds of brave men and women marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to…
The Blogosphere Discusses Segregation in Austin
Over the last two months, there’s been an uptick in folks visiting the Texas Housers website after searching on terms…
Texas LIHTC housing program rocked by second earthquake in two months
Reporter Karisa King’s full Texas housing story is out in the San Antonio Express News. It is a devastating expose…
Low-Income Housing Program Compels Building in Poor Texas Areas – NYTimes.com
Karisa King of the San Antonio Epress News has an incredibly researched and very disturbing story in Sunday’s New York…
More Texas kids live in concentrated poverty than in any other state
What does it mean to a child to grow up in a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated? That is a…
Dallas fumbles in the absence of a housing policy
Housing segregation is a problem most Texas communities struggle with. Crippled by a lack of political courage and leadership no…
The racism of New Berlin is growing in Galveston
We noted yesterday the United States Department of Justice brought suit alleging the City of New Berlin, Wisconsin had violated the…
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…
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…