Stagnant Wages, Rising Rents Create Strong Demand For Affordable Housing
California cities are faced with a challenging housing situation. Wages have hit a plateau or are in some cases decreasing, while rents continue to rise.
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Tenants Push Back Against Corporate Landlords During "Renter Week of Action"
In her five years renting from notorious Minneapolis slumlord Stephen Frenz and his Apartment Shop LLC, Molly Hasbrook, who is the building captain for her apartment unit, has seen it all. "Lots of ignored maintenance issues, some very major, cockroaches for about three years that weren't...
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If Rent Were Affordable, the Average Household Would Save $6,200 a Year
A new analysis points to the benefits of ending the severe affordability crisis.
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‘Renter Week’ Brings Protests to Corporate Landlord and HUD Offices
Renters in dozens of U.S. cities are organizing demonstrations this week under the banner of “National Renter Week of Action and Assemblies.” The purpose is to push back against the Trump Administration’s threat to cut billions from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and make the...
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#RenterWeekOfAction Addresses Nationwide Housing Crisis
Renters across the country are staging a week of protests to challenge rent increases, evictions and cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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L.A.'s Housing Crisis Is Now the Nation's Housing Crisis
The impact of Los Angeles' postrecession housing crisis became clear in 2014, when a UCLA report found that L.A. is "the most unaffordable rental market" in the United States.
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U.S. Cities Can Help to Achieve Worldwide Sustainability Goals
As reported Wednesday by Citiscope, a debate continues at the UN regarding whether a new “UN Urban” arm would be helpful to cities in achieving the SDGs or implementing the New Urban Agenda, a document intended to guide national and local policies on the growth and development of cities through...
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Future of America's baby boomers depends on our diverse youth
The rising visibility of white supremacy and the failure of presidential leadership regarding it have brought the pervasive role of racism in politics and society into sharp focus.
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How New Orleans Has Failed Its Workers Since Katrina
2016 was the first year since Hurricane Katrina that more people left New Orleans than moved in—that has a lot to do with the dismal job market that continues to repel young professionals.
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Charlottesville should stir conversation about our own racial divides
"And black workers earned $3 less an hour on average than white workers in Michigan in 2014, according to the National Equity Atlas. While we don’t need to remove symbols representing racial hatred in Lansing and other Michigan cities, disparities in our state between black and white people are...
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An Equity Profile of the Five-County San Francisco Bay Area Region
"Rising inequality, stagnant wages, and persistent racial inequities have put the long-term future of the booming Bay Area economy at risk, a report from PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California finds."
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Racial equity needed for LI’s growth, Urban League leader says
Discussions of racial disparities in Long Island’s social and economic fabric may be uncomfortable, but are necessary to dismantle barriers to equity faced by African-American residents and to support the overall health of Nassau and Suffolk counties, the head of the Urban League of Long Island...
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Ben Carson Said Poverty Occurs Because People Have "the Wrong Mindset"
"Poverty isn't about your state of mind as much as it is about policy and plunder." -Lincoln Blades. In this op-ed, writer Lincoln Blades explores systems that keep the poor at a disadvantage in the United States.
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The National Equity Atlas and Immigrant Integration
Immigrant integration is an important cultural, political, and economic imperative—NationalEquityAtlas.org offers nativity and ancestry data for your city, region, or state.
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"How We Ended Up Here": How America's Public School Crisis Started, and What Chance (and You) Are Doing to Help
Most of the schools where students are segregated by, race, class, language, or all three are in cities like Chicago. In February of last year, The Atlantic analyzed recent data from the National Equity Atlas and found that “kids of color represent a majority of the student body in 83 of the 100...
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Philanthropy, Equity, and The Wizard
USC Professor Manuel Pastor and PolicyLink chief Angela Glover Blackwell provided insights about how California sets the table for a national conversation that invokes a new narrative: equity and inclusion as a superior growth model for our nation’s economy.
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Inequities Holding Back Los Angeles-Area Economy, Study Finds
While Los Angeles County is the ninth most diverse among the hundred and fifty largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., it is the seventh most unequal, a report from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) finds.
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L.A.'s Income Inequality Gap Widens And Racial Inequality Persists, Study Shows
Los Angeles ranks seventh in income inequality out of the largest 150 metro regions, according to a study by PolicyLink and USC.
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California again outpaces U.S. in job growth as state unemployment rate drops to 5.1%
Los Angeles County is among the most economically unequal large metro areas in the country, according to a study released this week by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity.
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"2017 Equity Profile Of The Los Angeles Region" Highlights Dramatic Inequities
"Across the region, people are struggling daily for the things so many of us take for granted—safe streets, good jobs, access to health care, affordable housing and a quality education for our families," said Fred Ali, president and CEO of the Weingart Foundation. "Over the past several decades,...
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Report: L.A. Income Inequality Seventh-Highest in Nation
Los Angeles County ranks seventh in income inequality out of the nation’s 150 largest metro regions, according to a new report. The study from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity, with support from the Weingart Foundation, concludes that this high rate of...
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Inequalities in Los Angeles County reach ‘unprecedented levels,’ joint study finds
A new report released Thursday found widening inequities in income, wealth, health and opportunity in Los Angeles County. The report was developed by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and supported by the Weingart Foundation.
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States need environmental agendas based on social justice
The National Equity Atlas illustrates that air-pollution exposure in the Asian Pacific Islander population is 34 points worse than it is for the white population in Washington state. The University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity report, The Climate Gap,...
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Race, Place, and Jobs: Reducing Employment Inequality in America’s Metros
How to connect unemployed and under-employed workers of color to jobs in growing industries and industries with retiring baby boomers is a key question for Pittsburgh, but the region is far from alone. The Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce estimates that that by 2020 there will...
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Race, Place, and Jobs: Reducing Employment Inequality in America’s Metros
How to connect unemployed and under-employed workers of color to jobs in growing industries and industries with retiring baby boomers is a key question for Pittsburgh, but the region is far from alone. The Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce estimates that that by 2020 there will...
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