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*Communities are Systems* New York State has a housing affordability crisis, like much of the county, which also creates and exacerbates large inequalities between (and within) public education systems. Government zoning laws that constrain the supply of housing and exclude people of modest means from living in high-opportunity communities or neighborhoods are a major cause of both problems. While most of the debates over housing policy have centered around the first problem—the ways in which restrictive zoning drives up housing prices—this report focuses on an equally important and often overlooked challenge, the impact of zoning on the educational opportunities of children. This report is complete with extremely compelling evidence & arguments against restrictive land use and zoning. Unfortunately, the residents of suburban enclaves such as these are often either oblivious, or that is part of the purpose, to create exclusion (see "The Color of Law" and "Poverty, By America" as other excellent pieces). From NYU Furman Center & The Century Foundation examining how two Westchester County, NY communities: Scarsdale and Port Chester to examine the ways in which restrictive zoning impedes educational opportunities. American Planning Association National League of Cities League of Wisconsin Municipalities Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation Inc Eau Claire Area School District Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction American Planning Association Public Schools and Communities Division Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) Read the full findings here ▶ https://lnkd.in/eejNDxpm

As an experienced municipal planner and elected school board member, I am attuned to the intersectionality between educational outcomes and community development, and vice-versa. They're deep, complex, and codependent relationships, and yet in most places in siloed (sometimes antagonistic) organizations. How can policymakers support students in unstable housing situations? (1) Improve school districts' ability to identify student experiencing housing instability. (2) Expanding the ability of school districts to support students housing needs. (3) Expanding partnerships between school districts and housing support systems. I'd add: Collaborate directly with municipal land use and development authorities and officials in the housing planning and development process to influence what and where housing is constructed to meet the needs of the population, with special attention to equitable outcomes. American Planning Association American Planning Association Public Schools and Communities Division League of Wisconsin Municipalities Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) National League of Cities League of Wisconsin Municipalities #housing #education #publicschools #communitydevelopment #equity https://lnkd.in/gw5JZqV4

Veteran Housing Corp would recommend that residents of communities impacted by restrictive zoning laws that result in inequalities in the "quality of life" of all the residents, take action and contact their local, state, and federal elected officials and demand needed changes that will benefit the entire community. Locally, residents can demand the elimination of exclusionary zoning laws and regulations; at the state level, residents can demand changes in state laws that would preempt local zoning restrictions; and at the federal level, residents can object to any proposed federal funding or grants to their local communities that perpetuate inequality in their communities. #actionsspeaklouder #fairness #equalityforall #zoning #educationalequity #housingforall

Grateful the Urban Institute keeps us well informed! #nonprofits and #funders in my #impactstorycoaching network, you can always count on Urban for excellent resources that can back up your programs and fybding strategy. ImpactStory™ Coaching #Philanthropy #SocialImpact #ProgramEvaluation #MonitoringAndEvaluation #PerformanceMetrics #NonprofitEvaluation #ImpactAssessment #SocialImpactMeasurement #EvaluationCapacityBuilding

I am thrilled to share the last touch on my Master’s in City and Metropolitan Planning: the final report on Unraveling Educational Injustice in Salt Lake City — The Movement for a West Side High School. With a quantitative approach informed by qualitative input from students, families, teachers, administrators, elected officials, community groups, and SLCSD alumni, I found stark disparities between SLC neighborhoods in terms of access to education. While K-12 enrollment density is the highest within west side neighborhoods, no comprehensive high schools serve our neighborhoods west of I-15. Tied with neighborhood racial, ethnic, and economic segregation, enrollment-schooling spatial mismatch disproportionately affects low-income and minority families. West side students often wake up an hour or more earlier than their east-side peers to attend school. Geographic and transportation barriers reduce the time available for west side students to engage in academics, athletics, and extracurriculars by several hours each week as compared to east side peers. Declining enrollment will worsen educational injustice through school closures, but the issue has far-reaching consequences beyond west side students and families. Salt Lake City’s consequently aging population and increasing dependency ratio would increase employment spatial mismatch, increasing the cost of living by causing local labor shortages. Racial, ethnic, and economic segregation between neighborhoods would worsen, further minimizing social capital and social mobility. Housing policy focused on attainability across incomes, family-friendly amenities, and units with at least 3 bedrooms could help to reverse declining enrollment in Salt Lake City School District. Interlocal collaboration with Salt Lake City Corporation will be crucial. Last, but not at all least, increasing west side educational access by building a new west side high school can retain and attract families to neighborhoods where enrollment density is already high and new housing opportunities abound. My report explores all of these issues in greater depth and envisions what a feasible, comprehensive high school in Glendale could look like. Thanks to these fine folks for all of the input, guidance, education, and support: — University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning — Comunidades Unidas /Communities United — University Neighborhood Partners — Utah Community Advocate Network — My advisor, C. Aujean Lee, PhD And thank you for reading.

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Brown v. Board decision that school segregation was unconstitutional. Yet 70 years later, schools in major US cities remain more segregated than neighborhoods, and many students attend classes filled mostly with students who look like them. Urban’s #education research not only offers insights into this enduring problem in America, but promising solutions, too, including: • Evidence-based strategies school districts could adopt to reduce segregation and advance #equity • Strategies school officials and #housing developers could take to foster more integrated schools Find out more in this data story from Urban https://urbn.is/3UwYmZc.

A new report from the state California Legislative Analyst's Office’s (LAO) indicates that California Community Colleges College (CCC) students are experiencing higher rates of homelessness compared to @University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) students. This has shed light on the limitations of the “rapid rehousing program,” a state initiative launched in 2019 to address the escalating issue of student homelessness. While the program has made strides in reducing the rate of students facing housing insecurity, its impact is not enough. The Highlander #studenthousing #housingdemand #california https://lnkd.in/gw4VtcD4

Understanding Suburban School Segregation: Toward a Renewed Civil Rights Agenda  - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gR-tD6gG n the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, suburban school districts enroll 14.4 million students, far more than the 6 million students enrolled in the same metros' urban districts. In fact, students enrolled in the suburban school districts surrounding the 25 largest metropolitan areas represent roughly 30% of the nation's entire public school enrollment. Suburban growth has occurred alongside the creation of a segregated, metropolitan society through policy, law and practice. Discriminatory loan practices, federal highway construction, site selection for subsidized housing and exclusionary zoning are examples of how racial discrimination permeated to origins suburban society. State and federal governments are dominated politically by those representing suburban constituents too often eager to maintain an exclusionary status quo. As shifting populations change suburban school enrollment, education policy trends formerly confined to urban districts have spread to suburban ones. Many suburban school districts have experienced growth in the charter school sector, as well as a rash of school closures. Suburban schools and districts reflect broader societal problems, paradigms, and possibilities. This paper draws on federal enrollment data from the nation's largest 25 metros from 2011-2020 to descriptively analyze suburban school enrollment and segregation at the school district-level, seeking to understand different district contexts and their relationship to student segregation. We are a metropolitan society dominated by vast suburban rings with twice as many students as the central cities, but our civil rights and urban policies have not kept up with the suburban transformation. Neither have civil rights groups. The fair housing law of 1968 ended the ability of communities and those in the housing, real estate and banking industries to openly discriminate, allowing frustrated buyers and renters of color to suburbanize. But covert discrimination in the real estate, home finance and related industries persists. At the time the law was adopted no one envisaged a nonwhite majority in the suburban rings. The changes are a clear reflection of the shrinking share of whites in our society given the very low white birth and immigration rates. Projections show these overall trends are very likely to continue.  There are clear signs that rather than learn from the destructive spread of segregation across our central cities and their schools in the twentieth century, we may be repeating the failure in large swaths of suburbia. It is time for critical analysis of the trends and possibilities. This paper provides essential information for that analysis. #schoolsegregation #residentialsegregation #educationalequity #educationalopportunity #SeparateandUnequal #Brown #desegregation

The Potential for Land Use and Housing Reform to Address School Segregation and Educational Opportunity https://lnkd.in/ghwavPfK Housing, land use, and zoning policies are often siloed in such a way that they are considered and addressed separately from school segregation and students’ opportunities to learn. But these policy areas can interact in powerful ways. The wealth required to purchase homes in neighborhoods created by discriminatory land use planning and zoning regulations is intricately connected to an array of public goods, including schools. Neighborhood-based school assignment creates a direct link between segregated housing and segregated schools. More positively, zoning initiatives in recent years have proliferated to roll back the use of land for exclusionary purposes (e.g., a community only allowing single-family homes on large lots)—with important implications for schools. Less segregated schools are linked to greater social and economic mobility for historically marginalized students, which is reason enough to consider education when reforming housing policy. Moreover, an important goal of public education is to prepare all young people, no matter what their background, for active, equitable engagement in the pressing matters of the day. Such goals are advanced when students interact on equitable terms across lines of difference in racially and economically diverse, well-resourced schools. This policy brief attempts to break down the siloes separating land use and zoning policies from school segregation discussions and interventions. Drawing on multiple bodies of literature, it explores what we know about the potential of housing and land use policy reform to address school segregation—and why doing so matters. The research reviewed here illuminates the close historical and legal relationship between school and housing segregation and the clear links between land use policy and school and housing segregation. Studies also show that where land use or housing reforms have enabled greater access to less segregated schools, historically marginalized students’ outcomes have improved. Although the reforms and, by extension, the research, are somewhat limited, it suggests that land use and housing policy has the potential to more broadly reduce school segregation and improve student outcomes.  #LandUse #HousingReform #SchoolSegregation #EducationalOpportunity #residentialsegregation #housingdiscrimination #zoninglaws