New York City, with more than 1 million students, is far and away the nation’s largest school district — and one of its most segregated.
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A brief guide to the absurd, circular logic of people who don’t want to deal with homelessness.
Vice: Actually Supporting Homeless People Does Not Mean Housing Them Yourself Read More »
A federal tax break intended to draw investment to lower-income areas has become one more way for the rich to avoid paying taxes.
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This past June, the U.S. Congress opened a hearing to consider a bill that would create a commission to explore options for reparations for the descendants of enslaved people. Central to this conversation is the question of what is owed to African Americans, and what reparations would look like.
Medium: In Atlantic City, the Legacy of Segregation and Redlining Endures Read More »
Since the turn of the century, more than 20,000 Black D.C. residents had been displaced, a March study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found. The District leads several U.S. cities in this arena because housing values have outpaced the median incomes. In 2009, amid a recession, the District experienced more than 4,000 foreclosures. Several hundred people since then have also filed for bankruptcy.
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A packed hearing at the D.C. Council found tenant advocates calling for sweeping changes to the city’s rent control law.
According to Gilger and Wallace, “When one female reporter who covered health asked for a raise, the metro editor replied, ‘Your husband is a dentist. What are you worried about?’”
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for three cases over the administration’s cancellation of DACA. Trump has argued that former President Obama abused his executive power in creating the program, and that ending DACA would curtail illegal immigration in the country.
THE HILL: DACA Arguments Draw Large Protests At Supreme Court Read More »
Done in partnership with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Bone and his colleagues, which include Jerome Williams of Rutgers University and Glenn Christensen of Brigham Young University, have studied 10 years of data on the financial lending landscape for minorities and women.
They are doctors and pharmacists, business owners and students who were brought to the United States as children, unaware that they had entered illegally or on visas that later expired. Without legal status, their hopes for the future were dim.
A new report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition said: “Unfortunately, most cases of financial exploitation are unreported by financial institutions.”
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A plan to desegregate schools in a liberal Maryland suburb founded on values of tolerance has met with stiff resistance.
The New York Times: Where Civility Is A Motto, A School Integration Fight Turns Bitter Read More »
Over the past few months, Google, Facebook and Apple have pledged to invest a total of $4.5 billion in land and loans toward stimulating the production of affordable housing in California. Our article looks at how those efforts, laudable as they are, won’t amount to much unless the state enacts land-use reforms that make it easier and cheaper to build.
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Amid protests and boos, the Las Vegas City Council voted Wednesday to ban homeless people from sleeping on some city streets — a controversial measure that critics have called a “war on the poor.”
John Taylor, president and founder of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said at the symposium that he’s heard the argument that regulations stymie business “for forever and a day.”
