Fair housing is more than just anti-discrimination. It is critical that our society provide opportunities for all people to achieve wellbeing and reach their potential. Differences in access to health care, healthy food, and a clean environment have provided barriers that have disproportionately affected people of color and the poor. In this issue of On Common Ground, we discuss the multiple components that we need to address to achieve social equity — providing the opportunities and pathways to success so that all Americans can prosper.
In This Issue
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Fair Housing Act.
As developers zero in on urban markets, housing advocates are stepping in with measures that seek to ensure long-time residents are included...
Passage of the Fair Housing Act half a century ago was an “incredibly important milestone in our nation’s history, making housing discrimination...
There's a move afoot to put healthy community measures into comprehensive plans while also improving social equity in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Try to imagine a world without the internet. That would be difficult for most of us, but for large portions of rural areas and...
For the average middle-class family in the United States, getting access to high-quality food and produce usually means ...
A real estate professional should be familiar with the concepts of Universal Design and Inclusive Mobility.
When you were an up-and-coming young professional, you bought a house. Not just any house — your dream house. You lovingly decorated it and ...
Visitability, in some capacity, has been a part of Austin, Texas’ ordinances and housing codes for more than 20 years...
Most of the time the Rio de Flag flows through Flagstaff like a garden hose with the faucet turned off — in other words not at all.
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