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HUD JUDGE ORDERS PLANO, TEXAS, LANDLORDS TO PAY $140,649 IN RACE DISCRIMINATION CASE
By HUD Public Affairs On January 12, 2023 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ordered three Plano, Texas landlords to pay damages, civil penalties, and attorney’s fees totaling $140,649 for violating the Fair Housing Act. The ALJ found that agent Quang Dangtran…
Dallas tries to fix racial discrimination with housing policy
By Tasha Tsiaperas On March 2, 2023 Dallas is in the final stages of adopting a revised housing policy that seeks to fix the city’s long history of racial discrimination and segregation. Driving the news: Staff briefed City Council on Wednesday on Dallas Housing Policy 2033, which would finally establish goals to ensure equitable housing for…
Dallas advisory group looks to add environmental justice measures to racial equity plan
By Leah Waters On March 7, 2023 Community group wants city to measure neighborhoods’ distance from environmental pollution to fresh food, tree canopy coverage and solar power accessibility Dallas’ environmental commission is asking for more specific environmental justice targets to be added to the city’s racial equity plan The commission on Tuesday will brief the…
Child poverty task force members split on Hochul’s budget
By Raga Justin On April 3, 2023, updated on April 4, 2023 An advisory council has two different analyses of how effectively Gov. Hochul’s budget will begin reducing child poverty in the next decade. ALBANY — Some members of a group tasked with reducing child poverty in New York are questioning whether Gov. Kathy Hochul’s…
Annual Kids Count report reveals lows for Texas children in well-being categories
By Raquel TorresOn March 24, 2023 An annual report on the status of Texas children and youth revealed that Texas now ranks 45th in overall child well-being and 20% of children in the state are living in poverty with Black and Hispanic children accounting for the highest rates. The state’s children also rank in the…
Energy poverty in America: a never-ending emergency
By Mark Wolfe On March 25, 2023 When bills are tight, families live in fear because they have to decide between paying rent on time, buying food, or paying their home energy bill. Low-income families across the country struggle to make these decisions every day. But this year, high home energy costs are making it…
Biden revives hopes for this poverty-fighting tax break
By Gabriella Cruz-Martinez On March 18, 2023 Bringing back the enhanced Child Tax Credit was included in the president’s budget this month. The last year has been a difficult one financially for 44-year-old Rocky Harper. Inflation, especially, has eaten into his paychecks that support his family of four. “I had to switch careers last year…
‘Poverty, By America’ shows how the rest of us benefit by keeping others poor
By Jennifer Ludden On March 17, 2023 After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn’t understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. His new book Poverty, By America, provides a provocative and compelling answer: It’s because the rest of us benefit from…
Both parties agreed to protect anti-poverty programs — time to support ‘Baby Bonds’
By Gary Cunningham On March 16, 2023 As officials in Washington gear up for partisan warfare over President Biden’s recent budget proposal, a remarkable bipartisan agreement has persisted. Both sides are pledging to protect two of the nation’s most critical anti-poverty programs, Social Security and Medicare, acknowledging that these programs, despite some racially discriminatory origins, have been essential to protecting…