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 thatContinue Reading
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After legal cases, the Dallas area confronts fair housing challenges
In this busy summer for fair housing in America, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been the national epicenter. From theContinue Reading
Texas is no longer a good example of source of income protection
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio onContinue Reading
Five things the City of Austin can do to reduce landlord discrimination against housing voucher holders
Readers will recall that, at the behest of the Austin Apartment Association, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Abbott signedContinue Reading
Ferguson, fair housing and voucher discrimination: New York Times investigates a major factor in segregation
On the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, reporter John Eligon investigated racial inequality through the lens of fair housing. Specifically,Continue Reading
The story behind the Harbor Bridge: Segregation, neglect and pollution in Corpus Christi
This report was written in collaboration with Colin Cox and Thomas Dannehy, interns with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Cox and DannehyContinue Reading
Why Corpus Christi’s Northside neighborhoods matter
I moved to Corpus Christi in 2009 to study Environmental Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moving from El Paso, IContinue Reading
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June 9, 2015
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 communityContinue Reading
Texas cities lead nation in economic segregation
On the heels of a recent study that ranked Austin as the eighth most gentrifying city in the nation, aContinue Reading