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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched a call for proposals under their Systems for Action initiative for two different funding opportunities. These projects will focus on testing innovative approaches for medical care, social services, and public health systems...
A new report from The Century Foundation examines how zoning laws affect housing and schooling opportunities in the Buffalo region. The report first examines how two Buffalo neighborhoods—Martin Luther King Park and East Aurora—differ in their demographic makeups, home prices, and in the...
From NBC 10 Boston:
It’s been nearly two months since Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, signed an executive order banning fossil fuels from city buildings by the year 2050, and work toward those goals is well underway.
The Boston Housing Authority holds one of the city's largest shares of the city’...
A new report from The Century Foundation discusses how restrictive zoning laws lead to educational inequality in Scarsdale and Port Chester, two disparate Westchester County, New York towns just outside New York City. While Scarsdale is predominantly affluent and white, with a median...
A new article published in the Journal of Urban Affairs investigates how Black, Hispanic, and Asian households disproportionately fell behind on housing payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The higher likelihood of having late payments was partially a byproduct of pre-pandemic inequalities, but...
From WTKR3 Norfolk:
Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority's (NRHA) HomeNet Homeownership Center received a $6.4 million grant from Virginia Housing to bridge the minority homeownership gap on Wednesday.
NRHA says the grant aims to bridge the minority homeownership gap in Norfolk and "...
The practice of redlining is where public and private officials and professionals designated certain neighborhoods as high-risk largely due to racial demographics. This led to denied loans or significantly higher interest rates in those neighborhoods. It institionalized racial bias, and denied...
From Home Forward's press release:
Home Forward, in partnership with Urban League of Portland, celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fairfield Apartments in downtown Portland on June 29. Fairfield Apartments will be a permanent supportive housing development for people exiting chronic...
A new study published in the Milbank Quarterly examines messaging strategies to promote policies that advance racial equity. The authors aimed to study how various messaging strategies can influence support and mobilization for racial equity policy domains across a wide variety of social systems....