Wednesday, October 31, 2012

What can we do to affirmatively further fair housing?

Following on an article on segregation by Nikole Hannah-Jones for ProPublica I have joined a Quora discussion on what communities can do to affirmatively further fair housing. Read Quote of Rob Breymaier's answer to Fair Housing Act: What should communities be doing to "affirmatively further" fair housing? on Quora

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Oak Park: A 40 -Year Diversity Success Story

There is a new article at the National Journal by Ron Brownstein discussing a new report from Myron Orfield and Tom Luce at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Metropolitan Opportunity. The report maps changing diversity in the Chicago region and cites Oak Park and the Oak Park Regional Housing Center as models for sustaining stable diversity and prosperity.