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The Oft-Ignored Issue of Homelessness
Originally published in the JHU Politik on April 8th, 2013. Sometimes wars, thousands of miles away, can seem more pressing than the thousands of cold and hungry people sleeping on the streets of our...
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Julian Castro Should Visit Baltimore on the Way to His New HUD Secretary Desk
Originally published in Next City on July 11, 2014. —– “It’s not just about housing,” said Michelle Green. “They try to help low-income people branch out and do their best.” Green, who had moved to...
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The RAD-ical Shifts to Public Housing
Originally published in The American Prospect on August 28th, 2014. —- Traditional public housing is out of favor and substantially out of funds. It’s bureaucratic, concentrates the very poor, and is...
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‘Housing First’ Policy for Addressing Homelessness Hamstrung By Funding Issues
Originally published in The American Prospect on January 27, 2015. _________ In an era of shrinking financial resources, policymakers, providers, and activists who work on homelessness prevention and...
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Will Handing Public Housing Projects to Private Developers Hurt the Poor?
Originally published in Pacific Standard on February 6th 2015. ———– On a Wednesday night in early January, 21-year-old Ronald Hunter Jr.—a homeless and mentally ill man living in Buffalo, New...
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Details Emerge for Baltimore’s Plan to Privatize Public Housing
Originally published in The American Prospect’s Tapped blog on September 9th, 2015. ——— A little over a year ago I reported on the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)—the federal government’s new...
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When the Poor Move, Do They Move Up?
Originally published in The American Prospect on April 6, 2016. —- When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968, the bill that would become the federal Fair Housing Act was at risk of...
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Ben Carson, the GOP, and Subsidized Housing
Originally published in T’he American Prospect on December 16, 2016. —– Last week, Ben Carson, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, gave a talk at Yale...
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The Hopes and Fears Around Ben Carson’s Favorite Public Housing Program
Originally published in CityLab on April 21, 2017. — When Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren asked Ben Carson what he would do as HUD secretary to address the condition of U.S. public housing, Carson...
View ArticleCivil Rights Group Sue Ben Carson For Delaying Anti-Segregation Housing Reform
Originally published in The Intercept on October 23, 2017. —- A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its...
View ArticleDraft Legislation Suggests Trump Administration Weighing Work Requirements...
Originally published in The Intercept on February 1, co-authored with Zaid Jilani. ———- Draft legislation obtained by The Intercept suggests the Department of Housing and Urban Development is eyeing a...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Civil Rights Office for Housing Has Found the Real Problem: Pets
Originally published in The Intercept on March 23, 2018. ——- The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was designed to confront discrimination,...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the GOP Are Expanding a Controversial Obama-Era Public...
Originally published in The Intercept on April 2, 2018. ——- The most recent spending bill passed by the Republican Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump includes a massive expansion of...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Is Making It Easier to Evade Housing Desegregation...
Originally published in The Intercept on May 8, 2018. —– The Trump administration has illegally suspended a rule that requires local governments to show they’re working to reduce housing segregation,...
View ArticleA Federal Civil Rights Office Wants To Limit Access To Emotional Support...
Originally published in The Intercept on March 18, 2019. —– The Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving forward with a proposal that could limit people’s right to live with so-called...
View ArticleWhat If We Just Gave Renters Money?
Originally published in The Atlantic on October 20, 2021.—– In an obscure but public meeting last week, local and federal housing officials discussed a controversial idea that could transform U.S...
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