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- *The Long History And Lasting Legacy Of Housing Segregation
NPR 1A, with Joshua Johnson, May 10, 2017 In his new book Richard Rothstein explains how, for more than 100 years, the U.S. government practiced, enforced and allowed segregation in housing. Segregated public housing, whites-only suburbs, racially biased loan programs and a host of other practices hobbled African-Americans, Rothstein argues, leading to the deep socioeconomic and geographic divides that exist in the United States today. Rothstein calls his book “a forgotten history” because it was once known. Acknowledging and understanding this history again, he says, is the first step toward finding a solution. Guests Richard Rothstein research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; author "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" Jim Carr Coleman A. Young Endowed Chair and Professor in Urban Affairs, Wayne State University; Visiting Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute; consultant to the National Association of Real Estate Brokers Nela Richardson chief economist at Redfin Sherrilyn Ifill president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- 40 Acres
On the Media, Hosted by Brooke Gladstone, produced by WNYC, July 10, 2020
In this excerpt from our series, The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis, we catalog the thefts and the schemes — most of which were perfectly legal — and we ask how long this debt will fester.
Matthew Desmond, founder of The Eviction Lab and our partner in this series, and Marty Wegbreit, director of litigation for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, point us toward the legal and historical developments that evolved into the present crisis. And WBEZ’s Natalie Moore, whose grandparents moved to Chicago during the Great Migration, shows us around a high-eviction area on Chicago’s South Side.
- Diane Rehm Show - Matthew Desmond: “Evicted”
Diane Rehm Show, 3/7/2016 Discussion of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Being evicted used to be rare decades ago. But today, millions of Americans are forced out of their homes each year for not paying the rent. This, according to Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor with the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard. Desmond lived in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to document what happens to people after they are evicted. He witnessed families forever changed as they were forced into shelters, lost jobs and taken out of school. Guest host Tom Gjelten talks with Desmond about how the lives of eight families were transformed by eviction and what they tell us about the relationship between poverty and housing in America. Guests Matthew Desmond professor of sociology and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project, Harvard University; recipient of a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" grant Rolf Pendall director, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, The Urban Institute Vanetta (a pseudonym) a mother of five children living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her family's story of being evicted is depicted in Matthew Desmond's book "Evicted." Tim Ballering founder and owner of Affordable Rental Associates, LLC, a company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that rents and manages inexpensive residential properties. Related links are on the webpage.
- Diane Rehm Show -The State of Homelessness In America In 2015
The State of Homelessness In America In 2015 Diane Rehm Show, 12/7/2015 "The number of homeless in America is going down, but in a handful of cities there have been big increases leading some local leaders to declare states of emergencies." Guests Pam Fessler poverty and philanthropy correspondent, NPR Mary Cunningham senior fellow, The Urban Institute Philip Mangano president, American Roundtable to Abolish Homelessness; he is the former executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Ann Oliva deputy assistant secretary, HUD
- Gettlove Foundation
- Homeless persons helped by Transcendental Meditation and the David Lynch Foundation
The David Lynch Foundation has sponsored programs in several locations to aid homeless persons.
- Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Housing Spotlight | Volume 6, Issue 1; October 11, 2016 NLIHC's new report Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home about Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) and Public Housing waiting lists. An NLIHC survey of Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) indicated that 53% of HCV waiting lists were closed to new applicants and another 4% were open only to specific populations, such as homeless individuals and families, veterans, persons with a disability, or local residents. Sixty-five percent of closed HCV waiting lists had been closed for at least one year, more than half did not think the list would reopen within the next year, and wait times for HCVs often spanned years. The findings make clear that we must expand housing resources for our nation’s lowest income renters.
- How Our Tax Code Makes Inequality Worse
It has been engineered to promote inequality by providing mortgage interest deductions and other subsidies to people who don't need them. Thomas M. Shapiro, May 17, 2017, Moyers & Co. One of the ways in which wealth is redistributed upwards to the wealthiest among us today is via the mortgage interest deduction, a point illustrated by sociologist Matthew Desmond in a New York Times Magazine piece earlier this month. In a new book entitled Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future, sociologist Thomas Shapiro digs more deeply into the issue from the perspective of that other yawning gap in American society today: the racial wealth gap. Shapiro explains that the mortgage interest deduction, while the biggest driver of economic inequality, is not the only one baked into our tax code. He outlines how retirement savings and health insurance tax deductions also favor high earners, who are predominantly white Americans.
- In His Own Words, Iraq and Afghanistan Vet Recounts Journey From Homelessness To Hope
This piece was originally published in Huffington Post Christopher Mathias for The Huffington Post
- Kept Out - For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership
Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez, Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, February 15, 2018 Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to a mountain of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The yearlong analysis, based on 31 million records, relied on techniques used by leading academics, the Federal Reserve and Department of Justice to identify lending disparities.
- NPR special series - Staving Off Eviction
March 28-30, 2016 5-minute reports In A High-Rent World, Affordable And Safe Housing Is Hard To Come By Low-Income Renters Squeezed Between Too-High Rents And Subpar Housing Living From Rent To Rent: Tenants On The Edge Of Eviction Welcome To Rent Court, Where Tenants Can Face A Tenuous Fate
- PBS Newshour - LA’s ambitious plan to house every homeless veteran
PBS Newshour, June 13, 2015. "Los Angeles, a city with the highest number of homeless veterans, recently signed on to an ambitious national effort to end the crisis by the end of the year. Now, hundreds of service providers are working toward that goal by following a model that places chronically homeless vets in permanent housing and then provides these men and women with access to social services. NewsHour special correspondent John Carlos Frey reports."
- Poverty & Race Research Action Council - 2/10/2017 email
Email concerning Congressional bill to discontinue data supporting fair housing assessment and enforcement
- Private equity giants converge on manufactured homes
Jim Baker, Private Equity Stakeholder Project; Liz Voigt, MHAction; Linda Jun, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, February 2019
How private equity is manufacturing homelessness & communities are fighting back
- Regional Housing Mobility and Interdistrict School Integration: What We Know and What We Need to Do
Regional Housing Mobility and Interdistrict School Integration: What We Know and What We Need to Do Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), July/August 2015, 24(4)
- See also Residential racial segregation (Virtual Library folder)
- State of Things - Meet Reverend John Heinemeier
Meet Reverend John Heinemeier By Laura Lee & Frank Stasio, 6/15/2015 "Rev. Heinemeier spent more than five decades stirring things up and serving congregants in inner-city New York, Boston and Baltimore. He helped integrate churches in the 60s and 70s, bringing together Latino and African-American congregations. He also worked to develop the Nehemiah strategy for housing. "
- The impact of homelessness prevention programs on homelessness
William N. Evans, James X. Sullivan, Melanie Wallskog. Science 12 Aug 2016;353:694- Abstract: Despite the prevalence of temporary financial assistance programs for those facing imminent homelessness, there is little evidence of their impact. Using data from Chicago from 2010 to 2012 (n = 4448), we demonstrate that the volatile nature of funding availability leads to good-as-random variation in the allocation of resources to individuals seeking assistance. To estimate impacts, we compare families that call when funds are available with those who call when they are not. We find that those calling when funding is available are 76% less likely to enter a homeless shelter. The per-person cost of averting homelessness through financial assistance is estimated as $10,300 and would be much less with better targeting of benefits to lower-income callers. The estimated benefits, not including many health benefits, exceed $20,000.
- Why can’t we solve our homeless problem?
Guest Column by Ellie Kinnaird, The Local Reporter, Jan. 6, 2020
Our community has a severe shortage of affordable rental housing as well as a large homeless population — one of the largest in the state in proportion to our population. There were 153 homeless people in Orange County in 2018, a 13-percent increase from 2017!
- “Prove It!”
Fred Freiberg, Poverty & Race, Sept-Dec 2019;28(3) (from Poverty & Race Research Action Council [PRRAC])
Testing for discrimination by realtors in Milwaukee in the 1970s and in Long Island NY in 2019. Black and white testers were matched on personal, socio-economic, and homebuying characteristics.