The Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) resource page is for individuals and organizations seeking information about the conditions of racial and economic segregation and its relationship to housing opportunities. Through its own research, and its compilation of information and data from a variety of sources, ICP can help the student, the advocate, and the policy maker to understand how the issues of race discrimination, housing, education, health, and economic opportunity are related.

Below are links to selected websites, articles, and other organizational sites that deal with the issues of housing, race, and opportunity.

The Future of Fair Housing: Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity

During the 40th anniversary year of the passage of Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (the Fair Housing Act), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law came together to form the bipartisan National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Upon invitation, ICP provided testimony at the Commissions hearings. The Commissions recommendations include the need to reorient federal housing programs to focus, in part, on helping families move to less racially and economically segregated communities. Read the report.

Report to U.N. Addresses U.S. Legacy of Housing Segregation

December 10, 2007, DALLAS - In preparation for an upcoming U.N. review of United States compliance with the international race discrimination treaty, Inclusive Communities Project, a Dallas based non-profit organization which focuses on race and housing issues, has joined a coalition of more than 40 housing and civil rights organizations and scholars in a report detailing the continuing problem of racial discrimination and segregation in housing. Read the press release or the report.

Demographic Information

To help you understand your community and the trends in your region, state, or the United States in general.

Information from the Census: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative and Regional Research: www.albany.edu/mumford/
A resource for conducting urban research with a comparative and historical scope, for promoting local involvement and planning initiatives, and for national endeavors examining urban change over time. The Lewis Mumford Center has on-line resources and a helpful e-newsletter.

Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer: http://txsdc.utsa.edu/
A focal point for the distribution of Census information for the State of Texas. The Center also disseminates population estimates and projections for Texas, as well as other information from the federal government, state government, and other sources.

The Bruton Center: www.bruton.utdallas.edu
A resource for conducting research on social and economic issues related to urban and regional growth, as well as applied research on the institutions and public policies that shape the metropolitan environment.

Civil Rights/Fair Housing Advocacy Organizations

National

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law: www.lawyerscomm.org

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: www.maldef.org

NAACP Legal Defense Fund: www.naacpldf.org

National Fair Housing Alliance: www.nationalfairhousing.org

National Council of La Raza: www.nclr.org

The National Fair Housing Advocate Online: www.fairhousing.com
This resource is designed to serve both the fair housing advocacy community and the general public with timely news and information regarding the issues of housing discrimination.

Texas/Local

North Texas Fair Housing Center: www.northtexasfairhousing.org
NTFHC is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating housing discrimination in North Texas. Its counseling, discrimination complaint investigation and educational programs are provided free of charge to the community.

Texas Civil Rights Project: www.texascivilrightsproject.org

Texas Low Income Housing Information Service: www.texashousing.org

Austin - Austin Tenants' Council: www.housing-rights.org

San Antonio - Fair Housing Council of Greater San Antonio: www.accessiblehousing.org/

Governmental Fair Housing Offices

Dallas - Dallas Fair Housing Office: http://www.dallascityhall.com/html/fair_housing_office.html

Texas Workforce Commission, Civil Rights Division: http://www.twc.state.tx.us/customers/jsemp/jsempsubcrd.html

Department of Housing and Urban Development: http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/promotingfh.cfm

Policy and Research

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: www.kirwaninstitute.org

Institute on Race and Poverty: www.irpumn.org

Joint Center for Housing Studies: www.jchs.harvard.edu
Harvard University's center for information and research on housing in the United States. The Joint Center analyzes the dynamic relationships between housing markets and economic, demographic, and social trends, providing leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector with the knowledge needed to develop effective policies and strategies.

Center on Urban and Metropolitan Studies of the Brookings Institution: http://www.brookings.edu/metro/metro.htm
Research sponsored by Brookings on urban, metropolitan and regional issues. Brookings also sponsors an e-newsletter that notifies subscribers of new research studies available on the website.

Urban Institute: www.urban.org
A nonprofit, nonpartisan policy, research, and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. It provides information and analysis to public and private decision makers to help them address these challenges and strives to raise citizen understanding of these issues and tradeoffs in policy making.
For specific information on racial and economic fair housing policy, click: http://www.urban.org/housing/index.cfm

Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA: http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/
This website has links to governmental sources and agencies, partner organizations, and databases for research purposes. Civil and Action Kits provide basic information for parents and teachers to understand, detect, and fight discriminatory attitudes and actions in your school's education policies and practices.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: www.jointcenter.org
Informs and illuminates the nation's major public policy debates through research, analysis, and information dissemination in order to: improve the socioeconomic status of black Americans and other minorities; expand their effective participation in the political and public policy arenas; and promote communications and relationships across racial and ethnic lines to strengthen the nation's pluralistic society.

Poverty and Race Research Action Center (PPRAC): www.prrac.org/
PRRAC's purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.

Policy Link: www.policylink.org
Briefing papers on regionalism and equity and other help

The Civil Rights Project at UCLA Proyecto Derechos Civiles: www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu:80/
Their mission is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and to deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity as society moves through the great transformation of the 21st century.

Other Advocacy Related Organizations

Business and Professional People in the Public Interest: www.bpichicago.org
the Chicago public interest law firm that litigated the Gautreaux case for 40 years challenging public housing segregation, which resulted in the first housing mobility program in the country.

HELP USA: www.helpusa.org
Operates the Fair Housing Justice Center

Other Materials

Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility,
a publication by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council: www.prrac.org/projects/housingmobilityreport.php

Civil Rights Implications of the 2005 Flexible Voucher Bill (April, 2005) See full text.

Protecting Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Program (February, 2005) See full text.

PRRAC critiques HUD guidance to Public Housing Agencies on Mobility (August, 2004) Letter to HUD. See full text.

Civil Rights Mandates in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program (March, 2004) Letter to the I.R.S See full text.

Civil Rights Rollback Glossary (March, 2004) Compiled by the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. See full text.

Publications by ICP Authors

Elizabeth K. Julian & Demetria L. McCain, Housing Mobility:  A Civil Right, in The Integration Debate:  Competing Futures for American Cities 85 (2009).

Elizabeth Julian & Michael M. Daniel, HUD-Assisted Low-Income Housing:  Is it Working and for Whom?, 18 Poverty & Race 3 (July/Aug. 2009), at http://www.prrac.org/news.php.

Elizabeth K. Julian, Inclusive Communities Financial Institutions:  Investing in a More Ambitious Vision, Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation 57 (Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, & Lynette Rawlings, eds. 2009).

Elizabeth K. Julian, Recent Advocacy Related to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and Fair Housing, 18 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 185 (Winter 2009).

Elizabeth K. Julian, Fair Housing and Community Development:  A Time to Come Together, 41 Indiana Law Review 555 (2007).

Elizabeth Julian, An Unfinished Agenda, 29 Shelterforce 20 (Winter 2007).

Elizabeth K. Julian, Taking Gautreaux National:  The Polikoff Proposal, 1 Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 202 (2006), at http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/9/index.htm.

Elizabeth Julian, “Deconcentration” as a Policy:  HUD and Housing Policy in the 1990s, The NIMBY Report 5 (March 2004), at http://www.nlihc.org/doc/2003-2.pdf