The Worst States for Hispanics, Thomas Frohlich and Samuel Stebbins, 24/7 Wall Street, available here

If We’re Serious About Tackling Poverty, Let’s Talk About Housing, Terri Ludwig, Huffington Post, April 5, 2016, available here

Is Density a Question for the Courts to Decide?, Kriston Capps, CityLab, April 1, 2016, available here

Top Infrastructure Official Explains How America Used Highways To Destroy Black Neighborhoods, Alan Pyke, Think Progress, March 31, 2016, available here

Eva Rosen, The Nation, March 15, 2016, available here

Vouchers shouldn’t merely keep people off the streets; they should help families move to neighborhoods with more opportunities.

By untethering federal housing aid from the disadvantaged neighborhoods to which it was once attached, vouchers offer millions of poor Americans the opportunity to move to a new neighborhood where streets are safe, schools have resources to teach their children, and jobs are bountiful.

Barbara Sard and Douglas Rice, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 12, 2016, available here

Housing Choice Vouchers help families afford decent, stable housing, avoid homelessness, and make ends meet. They also enable children to grow up in better neighborhoods and thereby enhance their chances of long-term health and success. Still, 280,000 children in families using vouchers lived in extremely poor neighborhoods in 2014.

A new CBPP paper shows that Housing Choice Vouchers could do much more to help children grow up in safer, low-poverty neighborhoods with good schools.

Anya Kamenetz, NPR, October 19, 2015, available here.

The tacit assumption was that sending children to a majority-minority school would entail a sacrifice, one that pits their own children against their (presumably) progressive ideals. But there's plenty of evidence that suggests the opposite: White students might actually benefit from a more diverse environment.

New York Times, October 17, 2015, available here

Racial discrimination in housing remains pervasive and well entrenched, and governments at all levels bear a heavy share of the blame. Despite paying lip service to the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which required states and localities that receive federal money to try to overcome historical patterns of racial isolation, elected officials have often reinforced segregation through a range of policies. Among the most pernicious of these is the practice of building subsidized housing mainly in existing ghettos instead of in areas that offer low- and moderate-income families access to safe neighborhoods, good jobs and schools that allow their children to thrive.

New York Times, Sept. 15, 2015, available here

Americans commonly — and mistakenly — believe that well-to-do black people no longer face the kind of discrimination that prevents them from living anywhere they can afford. But a federal housing discrimination complaint filed last week by the National Fair Housing Alliance shows that this toxic problem is very much with us, nearly 50 years after Congress outlawed housing discrimination in the Fair Housing Act.

Jonathan Rothwell, Brooking's Institute, May 6, 2015, available here

Neighborhoods remain the crucible of social life, even in the internet age. Children do not stream lectures — they go to school. They play together in parks and homes, not over Skype. Crime and fear of crime are experienced locally, as is the police response to it. But wide income gaps and America’s legacy of racial segregation result in wide differences between neighborhoods on a range of measures. Two major new studies from Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren show that neighborhoods matter not only for daily life, but for the life chances of the children raised there.