That, in turn, closely reflects childhood poverty rates in surrounding communities.” The layers of segregation — in schools and in housing — adversely affect minorities, the authors said.

EST, Congress members Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL), along with national and local homelessness advocates, will introduce the Housing Not Handcuffs Act at a press conference in room ...

Disability and poverty are deeply intertwined, and when they co-exist, the barriers multiply. Families with disabled children are more likely to experience financial hardship, social exclusion ...

The study found that more than 500 majority-Black neighborhoods have been affected by gentrification over the past 50 years.

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

Most people borrow heavily to buy their real estate. Even those with multi-million-dollar homes tend to have mortgages and ...

Such segregation was an open secret in Chicago and the subject of decades of protest — Mr. Polikoff filed the case in August 1966, just months after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began his ...

A growing body of scientific research focuses on one of those housing policies, redlining, and how it continues to shape modern health and environmental outcomes. Redlining dates to the 1930s ...

This was not bigotry with an iron fist; it was more subtle bigotry that wore a velvet glove while writing and defending the pages of the nation’s zoning codes.

Housing is an ongoing problem, he said, with 68 percent of the poorest households and 92 percent of those at the poverty line spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing.

Housing is a basic human need, and no one should be turned away from resources and services that help them obtain stable, affordable housing because of their identity. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, ...