11 million dollar verdict in Ohio race discrimination water service case
On July 10, a federal jury in Columbus, Ohio returned verdicts totaling nearly $11 million against the City of Zanesville, Muskingum County, and the East Muskingum Water Authority, for denying access to public water services on the basis of race…
Clearinghouse Review publishes articles on race-conscious advocacy
Two articles on race-conscious advocacy authored by Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) advocates appear in the current issue (May-June 2008) of Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy. Local Land-Use Advocacy: Inclusionary Zoning to Achieve Economic and Racial…
Seven federal policy recommendations to end racial segregation in America
The Harvard Law & Policy Review Online, published a note, entitled End Residential Racial Segregation: Build Communities that Look Like America, by long time housing advocate and Indiana University law professor Florence Wagman Roisman. After detailing the history of federal…
U.N. Race discrimination committee issues report touting California housing element law
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Race Discrimination (CERD) issued its Concluding Observations on March 7. These Observations followed formal review of the U.S. report to the CERD under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms…
E-Newsletter 3.4
The REP is happy to bring you the long-awaited and much-anticipated e-newsletter exploring land use and housing issues faced by low income persons of color. We hope this e-newsletter will shed some light onto how advocates can fight structural and…
Using California laws to advance race equity in land use
Local governments historically have generally exercised their broad land use and zoning powers to exclude rather than encourage housing affordable to lower income households. Local prejudices and parochialism cultivated land use policies and practices that exacerbated long time patterns of…
