School desegregation efforts haven’t been durable because we have failed to tackle the root cause – residential segregation, the undone work of the civil rights movement. A new report from the Urban Institute funded by Enterprise draws a through-line between discriminatory housing practices and school inequities, and identifies strategies to address school segregation.
A group of affordable housing organizations has called on the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to compel government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to improve their “Duty to Serve” (DTS) proposals before approving them.
Enterprise is looking to hire a consultant to help create a toolkit of strategies that housing providers can use to house and service people impacted by the criminal legal system.