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all public housing for Philadelphia is over 50,000. As a result of imbalances between demand for affordable housing and supply, PHA has faced criticism for property divestment practices and tenant relations. In the summer of 2020, existing frustration with PHA, the pandemic, and growing awareness of systemic racism amplified
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Moreover, it was commonplace to find help wanted and housing ads categorized by race in Philadelphia’s newspapers until the practice was banned in 1954. A 1959 survey found that 93 percent of black workers believed the city’s employers were racially discriminatory in their hiring practices.
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Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy Adams, Brian . 248 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2006 paper 978-1-59213-570-7 ... Critical Perspectives on Housing edited by Bratt, Rachel G., Chester Hartman and Ann Meyerson 600 pp • Fall 1985 ... The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy, 1937-1942 Capeci, Jr., Dominic J. ...
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all offices in the State that provide public assistance.”18 Despite this broad language, States generally include only a limited number of public assistance agencies in their Section 7 agency programs.19 Notably, no State has designated Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) as Voter Registration Agencies (VRAs),20 even though PHAs are
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/rebuilding-a-low-income-housing-policy
Examining earlier federal housing initiatives, Rachel Bratt argues that public housing has not failed. She proposes a new strategy for producing decent, affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations.
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from first to second year, examine the effect that on-campus housing has on student behavior as explained by the frequency of violations of the student code of conduct, and provide a deeper understanding of student engagement and explore its relationship with student housing.
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Together these partners in renewal forged a public-private partnership at a time when black and white Americans were moving farther apart. Together they articulated a new definition of community in which the combination of mutual responsibility and the strength of the American business system provided the means to turn poor neighborhoods
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On August 13, 1957, William and Daisy Myers and their three children, an African American family, moved into the all-white community of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and shortly thereafter found themselves confronted by angry residents displeased with their arrival. Large crowds gathered during the day and hurled insults towards the home, while at ...
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Together with James R. Elliott of Rice University, the current phase of the project involves surveying and interviewing people from areas targeted for policy intervention. Findings from this project have been published in Population and Environment, Natural Hazards Review, Social Problems, Housing Policy Debate, Socius, and Social Currents.
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Scholarship (“Ohlbaum paper”); to recap Eddie’s contribution to trial advocacy knowledge and instruction; and to contextualize this contribution in a history of advocacy instruction, advocacy writing, and changes in the structure and focus of legal academia. O. HLBAUM AND . H. IS . L. EGACY. Perhaps it is easiest to begin with Eddie Ohlbaum.