Home
- The Trump administration's new rule represents a move to a regulatory regime that tells localities that their exclusionary zoning - zoning that precludes the construction of affordable housing - will go unchallenged. It will mean that the national scourge of residential segregation will continue unabated.
Mayor de Blasio refuses to change an affordable housing lottery system that effectively says to African-American New Yorkers, “If you want to move to affordable housing in white neighborhoods, we’ll make it harder for you. But if you stick with affordable housing in your own neighborhood, we’ll tip the scales in your favor.”- Different organizations focused strictly on their own agendas to the exclusion of all else. It's been a perennial problem, but the consequences are greater than they have even been. The integrity of our elections is hanging in the balance and a failure to #ProtectOurDemocracy (as it would be phrased in Twitter-land) will doom everything else. Given the prospect of multiple Supreme Court appointments and dozens of more Circuit Court judges, the damage could last for decades.
Segregation of African-Americans todayStartling new interactive maps vividly show the depth and breadth of residential segregation in the U.S. at the state, county, census tract, and census block group levels in ways that most previous mapping has not.- For all the recent outrage at instance after instance of well-known public figures being found to have engaged in sexual harassment, there has been surprisingly little discussion of any changes to the law that would affect the vast majority of victims of harassment who work in the civilian labor force. Unknown to most people, there is a judge-invented doctrine that throws must victims out of court. That doctrine says that harassment is not actionable unless it is “severe or pervasive.” But any state or municipality friendly to civil rights can throw that doctrine in the trash bin where it belongs.