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The Fair Housing Act at 50 | Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

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Fair housing can and should be a centerpiece of efforts to expand economic opportunity, asserted Dr. Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who gave the 18th Annual John T. Dunlop Lectureat the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Tuesday, April 10 (watch video).  His talk, on the past, present, and future of the Fair Housing Act, was given one day before the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the measure.

Bostic, who also served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2009 until 2012, explained that decades of research show the strong positive impacts that neighborhoods can have on children’s education and future earnings. Given this, he noted, it is in everyone’s interest to support efforts to expand opportunities for all families. “Fair housing is a key to economic mobility,” he explained. “It is an economic development issue as well as a community and personal development issue.” …

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Source: Housing Perspectives (from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)

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April 2018, The 50 Year Anniversary of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act

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VT Governor Phil Scott’s Proclamation of April as Fair Housing Month and marking the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Federal Fair Housing Act.

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Burlington Mayoral Proclamation of April, 2018 as Fair Housing Month in Burlington, VT and Burlington celebrates April, 2018 as the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Fair Housing Act.

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Hundreds Convene to Build the Affordable Homes Movement in Washington, DC, March 19-21

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NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum

Hundreds Convene to Build the Affordable Homes Movement in Washington, DC, March 19-21

NLIHC Source: Click here to read the entire Memo to Members, Hundreds Convene to Build the Affordable Homes Movement in Washington, DC, March 19-21 | National Low Income Housing Coalition Memo to Members

More than 450 affordable housing advocates and providers, resident leaders, researchers, and policy makers attended the NLIHC 2018 Housing Policy Forum: Building the Movement, which took place in Washington, DC on March 19-21. A broad cross-section of NLIHC members and partners engaged with policy makers, experts, and one another, participated in more than a dozen sessions and workshops on building the national affordable homes movement, and met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge them to take action to address homelessness and housing poverty in America.

Source: Hundreds Convene to Build the Affordable Homes Movement in Washington, DC, March 19-21 | National Low Income Housing Coalition

Color of Law author Richard Rothstein

Color of Law author Richard Rothstein

 

Below is An Excerpt from Memo to Members:

“The first panel of the Forum discussed the State of Fair Housing on the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.  *Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, described the history of explicit federal, state, and local government policies that resulted in housing segregation – which still persists today. He told the audience to challenge how the history of segregation is mis-taught or not taught in our schools. He also suggested that an analysis of fair housing history should be required in jurisdictions’ Analyses of Impediments to fair housing.

Mr. Rothstein was joined by three panelists.

*Lisa Rice, who will succeed Shana Smith as president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance, shared a graphic, “Where You Live Matters,” showing how someone’s ZIP Code affects so many facets of life, like health, education, and income. “We need to help create a fair housing vision and push it forward to HUD,” Ms. Rice said.  “The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule is a great opportunity to move forward.”

*James Cadogan, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, encouraged “recapturing the public narrative” by explaining that the effects of historic government-sponsored segregation continue as “a pernicious and pervasive harm today – it is current affairs.”

*Don Chen, director of Equitable Development at the Ford Foundation, urged housers with differing priorities to come together toward a common set of fair housing goals. He suggested correcting the “fake history” around segregation by engaging children in learning about the fair housing history in their communities.”