“Fifty Years Later: Brown v. Board of Education and Housing
Opportunity,”
the Sept. 2004 NIMBY report published by the
National Low Income Housing
Coalition
, examines the historic connections between fair housing and school
desegregation efforts. MPC’s work is featured in the concluding article, “The
Case for Joining Forces: Affordable Housing and Quality Education,” by
Scott Goldstein
and
Robin Snyderman
.
In addition to pointing out the public policy
connections between the affordability of housing and the quality of education in
a state so reliant on property taxes to fund its schools, the concluding article
also speaks to the value of connecting the different advocacy groups currently
working on housing and education. MPC’s work with A+ Illinois, Housing Illinois, Metropolitan Mayors
Caucus, and the Governor’s Housing Task Force are all featured to
illustrate the value of such a joining of forces.
