51 years after the Fair Housing Act, it's never been seriously enforced. It's time to change that.
First things first, Biden has work to do to convince whoever can be convinced that there is a racial, environmental, and economic imperative to undo residential segregation.
Use whatever explanation works!
For sympathetic progressives Biden should link racial and environmental justice to ending exclusionary zoning.
As Sara Pratt, an Obama-era HUD official told me: “There’s a group who ... embrace segregation and inequity, and they don’t want to spend a dime in the Black community and they would rather have their Latino population move out of town..." vox.com/22252625/ameri…
"...For those people, that’s where enforcement becomes relevant — and good, strong enforcement.”
Huge thanks to @baggageclaimed for asking me to write on my favorite topic & editing, @christinamta for the A+ visuals work, and @TanyaPai and Tim Williams, the phenomenal copy editors who have prevented me from making errors more times than I can count. vox.com/22252625/ameri…
not surprising that in an age of racial reckoning companies and governments would rather turn to unproven interventions like employee trainings than major changes like undermining police union power or spending money on social welfare programs
I spent a couple of weeks talking with policy experts, renters, landlords, and lawyers about the looming expiration date for the CDC's eviction moratorium.
It's worse than you think, and it's all utterly avoidable. Thread.
The Aspen Institute has estimated up to 40 million renters are at risk of eviction over the next several months. The only thing currently holding back the tide is the CDC's order and a patchwork of state and local eviction moratoriums.
But eventually moratoriums have to end. And Moody's Analytics' chief economist Mark Zandi has estimated renters could owe up to $70 billion by year's end.