The chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees said July 3 they oppose a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that they say would lead to separation or housing instability for many families.
Housing
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Will affordable housing be a major topic in the 2020 campaign? It should.
Seniors, especially those who live alone, face the same resistance as recent college graduates in an economic and political environment that still promotes the costly option of a single-family home with a front lawn and two-car garage.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’: A new way to look at gentrification
Joe Talbot’s film raises the question: what does it mean to belong to a place?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Infographic: Fifty years after Fair Housing Act, segregation persists
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: We need to fast-track housing near public transit
City planners are increasingly alarmed by two trends: a growing shortage of affordable housing and a nationwide decline in public transit ridership.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Welcoming the stranger means welcoming new housing
Escalating rents and home prices have created invisible walls around communities all over the United States.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
The fate of Yonkers’ mayor and a federal housing plan: ‘Show Me a Hero,’ parts 3 and 4
David Simon and his team revel in the weeds of late 1980s housing policy.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Yonkers and the ugly politics of ‘not in my backyard’: A recap of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ parts 1 and 2
At the heart of the class combat in “Show Me a Hero” is fear, a fear that is made worse by the fact the black, brown and white residents of Yonkers know very little about one another.