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Tag: racial segregation

49 years after Dr. King’s death, Austin leaders offer a sweeping blueprint to racially integrate neighborhoods

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 4, 2017

  Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that…

Tags: Austin, Fair housing, Housing segregation, Integration, Mayor's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequalities, racial segregation, Residential Segregation

After legal cases, the Dallas area confronts fair housing challenges

Local issues•by •Posted August 18, 2015

In this busy summer for fair housing in America, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been the national epicenter. From the…

Tags: Dallas, Disparate impact, ICP, Low income housing, McKinney, racial segregation

Texas is no longer a good example of source of income protection

State issues•by •Posted August 17, 2015

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio on…

Tags: Austin, HUD, julian castro, racial segregation, source of income, Voucher discrimination

Five things the City of Austin can do to reduce landlord discrimination against housing voucher holders

Local issues•by Karen Paup•Posted August 14, 2015

Readers will recall that, at the behest of the Austin Apartment Association, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Abbott signed…

Tags: Austin, Discrimination, racial segregation, source of income

Ferguson, fair housing and voucher discrimination: New York Times investigates a major factor in segregation

National issues•by •Posted August 10, 2015

On the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, reporter John Eligon investigated racial inequality through the lens of fair housing. Specifically,…

Tags: Ferguson, racial segregation, Racism, source of income

The story behind the Harbor Bridge: Segregation, neglect and pollution in Corpus Christi

Uncategorized•by •Posted August 7, 2015

This report was written in collaboration with Colin Cox and Thomas Dannehy, interns with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Cox and Dannehy…

Tags: Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Harbor Bridge, Hillcrest, racial segregation

Why Corpus Christi’s Northside neighborhoods matter

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted August 3, 2015

I moved to Corpus Christi in 2009 to study Environmental Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moving from El Paso, I…

Tags: Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, racial segregation, segregation

Legacy of housing segregation felt in McKinney pool incident

National issues•by •Posted June 9, 2015

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…

Tags: Disparate impact, Housing Discrimination, Housing segregation, McKinney, racial segregation

Texas cities lead nation in economic segregation

National issues, State issues•by •Posted February 24, 2015

On the heels of a recent study that ranked Austin as the eighth most gentrifying city in the nation, a…

Tags: economic segregation, income inequality, racial segregation, Texas
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