by Jocelyn Hassel | Jul 2, 2020 | Amicus, Housing, Human Rights, Legislation, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
Photo Credit: Steve Richey/StockSnap The fight for Black lives is not a monolith. In fact, the past few months have made it abundantly clear that strategizing a sustainable movement for defending Black lives means that allies must remain cognizant of other systems...
by Melissa Wen | Apr 1, 2020 | Amicus, Housing, Poverty and Economic Justice
Photo Credit: Brandi Ibrao/Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to unhoused people’s lack of access to sanitary living conditions. The extreme dearth of shelter beds and public restrooms across the country means that unhoused people, despite...
by Erin Fowler | May 2, 2019 | Guest Author, Housing, Labor and Employment, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
Guest post by Demisse Selassie. Demisse Selassie, 27, is a Prince George’s County, Maryland native. He is currently a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Demisse’s interests lie at the intersection of law, policy, and community economic...
by | Nov 1, 2018 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Housing, Legal History
In 2015, The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project that seemed to finally confirm the Court’s recognition of a private right to bring “disparate impact” claims of discrimination...
by | Apr 18, 2018 | Amicus, Housing
April 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which was passed in 1968 to fix residential segregation by preventing individuals from marginalized communities from being discriminated against in the sale or rental of housing. The Act also outlawed...
by | Apr 11, 2018 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Housing, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Uncategorized
The housing crisis in the United States has garnered increasing attention over the past few years, and recent studies have begun to plumb millions of eviction records to understand the full scope of the problem. Displacement—and housing injustice in general—is a...
