Stop Talking About Inequality and Do Something About It

This virus is poised to rip through black neighborhoods like mine.

By Jeremiah Bey Ellison, The New York Times, April 15, 2020. Available Here. 

Connecticut’s big city mayors call for help for renters out of work during pandemic

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Gregory Hladky, CT Mirror, April 8, 2020. Available Here. 

What the Racial Data Show

Black people are overwhelmingly dying from coronavirus in cities across the US

By Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, April 7, 2020. Available Here.

U.S. government is urged to release race, ethnicity data on covid-19 cases 

By Vanessa Williams, Washington Post, April 6, 2020.

In Chicago, 70% of COVID-19 Deaths Are Black

By Elliott Ramos and María Inés Zamudio, WBEZ, April 5, 2020. Available Here. 

Homeowners get 90-day pass on mortgage bills. Renters still owe rent.

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Kelan Lyons, CT Mirror, April 3, 2020. Available Here. 

Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation

How America's Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color

Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro, Center for American Progress, August 7, 2019. Available Here. 

A crisis of low incomes and a parallel crisis of tight supply.

Matthew Yglesias, Vox, July 30, 2019. Available Here. 

Racial Disparities in Home Appreciation

Implications of the Racially Segmented Housing Market for African Americans’ Equity Building and the Enforcement of Fair Housing Policies

Michaela Zonta, Center for American Progress, July 15, 2019. Available Here.