Race, Place, and Fair Housing in Texas

 

A Statewide Conference at the
University of Texas School of Law
October 15th, 2010, 8 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

 

Conference Program and Video:

Program (PDF)
Speaker Biographies (PDF)

8:30	Welcome & Opening Remarks
	Mary Crouter, Assistant Director, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, UT School of Law
	Heather K. Way, Director, Community Development Clinic, UT School of Law
8:45-9:30	Overview of National Legal Developments
	Welcome and Panel Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousing1.wmv
	Speaker Handouts
	Summary:  This opening session covers new legal developments regarding city and state obligations to further fair housing opportunities for persons of color. The panel includes an overview of fair housing law, a conversation about changes in federal fair housing enforcement, and a discussion of the latest legal cases in this field and what they mean for Texas communities. Leading this session are two national experts on fair housing issues.
	Moderator: Eliza Platts-Mills, Adjunct Professor, Community Development Clinic, UT School of Law
	Speakers: Reed Colfax, Partner, Relman, Dane & Colfax, Santa Fe, NM Michael Allen, Partner, Relman, Dane & Colfax, Washington, DC
9:30-10:45	The State of Fair Housing in Texas Today for Persons of Color
	Panel Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousing2.wmv
	Speaker Handouts
	Summary:  This session focuses on fair housing issues in Texas and highlights some of the barriers that African-Americans, Latinos, and other persons of color face today in accessing desegregated housing opportunities. Panelists discuss some of the latest advocacy efforts in Texas to further opportunities for minority families to access housing in high-opportunity areas. This session includes a discussion of the landmark fair housing settlement between the State of Texas and HUD involving $1.7 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant funding.
	Moderator:  A. Mechele Dickerson, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UT School of Law
	Speakers: Demetria McCain, Director of Advocacy and Education, Inclusive Communities Project, Dallas, TX Kevin Hamby, Senior Counsel, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Austin, TX Shannon Van Zandt, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Michael Daniel, Partner, Daniel & Beshara, Dallas, TX
11:00-12:30	City and Regional Planning for Inclusive Communities
	Panel Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousing3.wmv
	Speaker Handouts
	Summary: Panel members discuss national models for making fair housing an effective aspect of community planning. The panel includes a focus on city and regional planning policies that further the inclusion of affordable housing in high-opportunity communities, along with a discussion on opportunities for planning efforts in Texas.
	Moderator:  Heather K. Way
	Speakers: Kevin Walsh, Associate Director, Fair Share Housing Center, Cherry Hill, NJ Theresa O’Donnell, Director, Sustainable Development and Construction Departments, City of Dallas Elizabeth Mueller, Assistant Professor, UT School of Architecture Myron Orfield, Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
12:30-1:45	Keynote Address
	Keynote Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousingatrium.wmv
	Introduction: Michael Gerber, Executive Director, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Austin, TX
	Speaker:  Mercedes Márquez, Assistant Secretary, Office of Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
2:00-3:00	Creating an Effective Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing
	Panel Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousing4.wmv
	Speaker Handouts
	Summary:  This session identifies best practices for developing an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing (“AI”) that meets federal legal requirements, effectively addresses local racial barriers to fair housing, and integrates fair housing into a jurisdiction's planning processes.
	Moderator: Frances Leos Martinez, Director, Texas C-BAR; Adjunct Professor, Community Development Clinic, UT School of Law
	Speakers: Daniel Lauber, AICP, Attorney/Planner, Planning/Communications, River Forest, IL John Henneberger, Co-Director, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, Austin, TX
3:00-4:30	The Rental Housing Toolbox for Building Inclusive Communities
	Panel and Closing Video: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/media/Reels/WWJC/fairhousing5.wmv
	Speaker Handouts
	Summary:  This concluding session presents models from across the country of ways to build inclusive, racially diverse communities using government rental housing programs, including the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and the Housing Choice Voucher programs. The speakers on the panel bring experience and expertise from housing programs around the country, including Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, and other cities.
	Moderator: Eliza Platts-Mills
	Speakers: Barbara Samuels, Managing Attorney for ACLU of Maryland's Fair Housing Project, Baltimore, MD Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Washington, DC Elizabeth Julian, President, Inclusive Communities Project, Dallas, TX Veronica Chapa-Jones, Deputy Director of Compliance, Housing & Community Development Department, City of Houston
4:30-4:45	Closing Remarks
	Elizabeth Mueller

 

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Speaker Handouts:

Overview of National Legal Developments

• Michael Allen and Reed Colfax
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Overview of National Legal Developments (PDF)

The State of Fair Housing in Texas Today for Persons of Color

• Michael Daniel
  • Background Material:
    Memo prepared for the Race, Place, and Fair Housing Conference (PDF)
• Demetria McCain
  • Background Material:
    www.inclusivecommunities.net
  • Background Material:
    

    Elizabeth K. Julian and Demetria L. McCain, Housing Mobility: a Civil Right, in THE INTEGRATION DEBATE: COMPETING FUTURE FOR AMERICAN CITIES 85 (Chester Hartman & Gregory D. Squires eds., 2010).
    www.routledge.com

• Shannon Van Zandt
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Lanscapes of Inequality (PDF)
  • Background Materials:
    Housing Inequalities and Social Vulnerability (PDF)
    Housing Market Segmentation (PDF)
    Uneven Regional Growth (PDF)
    
  • Background Material:
    Social Vulnerability and Hurricane Ike: Using Social Vulnerability Mapping to Enhance Coastal Community Resiliency in Texas (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    Determinants & Characteristics of Damage in Single-Family Island Households from Hurricane Ike (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    Growing Pains: Perpetuating Inequality Through the Production of Low-Income Housing in the the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    The Relationship Between Residential Land Use Patterns and the Educational Outcomes of Economically-Disadvantaged Students in Texas (PDF)
    

City and Regional Planning for Inclusive Communities

• Myron Orfield
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Land-use, Demographics, Local Finance, and Politics (PDF)
• Kevin Walsh
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Race, Place, and Fair Housing in New Jersey (PDF)

Creating an Effective Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing

• Daniel Lauber
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Creating an Effective Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing (PDF)
  • Background Material
    The housing act & discrimination (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    "A Real LULU," the John Marshall Law School article on group home zoning (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice in the City of Naperville, Illinois (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    Murfreesburo, Tennessee Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice 2010 (PDF)

The Rental Housing Toolbox for Building Inclusive Communities

• Elizabeth Julian
  • Background Material:
    www.inclusivecommunities.net
  • Background Material:
    

    Elizabeth K. Julian and Demetria L. McCain, Housing Mobility: a Civil Right, in THE INTEGRATION DEBATE: COMPETING FUTURE FOR AMERICAN CITIES 85 (Chester Hartman & Gregory D. Squires eds., 2010).
    www.routledge.com

• Barbara Samuels
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Tools for Building Inclusive Communities (PDF)
• Philip Tegeler
  • PowerPoint Presentation Handout:
    Balancing "place based" revitalization and regional housing opportunity (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program (PDF)
  • Background Material:
    "Civil Rights Task Force on Federal Housing Policy"
    

   

  Planning Committee:

  Mary Crouter, UT School of Law • Fred Fuchs, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and UT School of Law • Michael Gerber, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs • John Henneberger, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service • Elizabeth Julian, Inclusive Communities Project • Frances Leos Martinez, Texas C-BAR and UT School of Law • Demetria McCain, Inclusive Communities Project • Elizabeth Mueller, UT School of Architecture • Eliza Platts-Mills, UT School of Law • Madison Sloan, Texas Appleseed • Heather K. Way, UT School of Law

   

  Conference Contact:

  Community Development Clinic, UT Law, mpajon@law.utexas.edu, (512) 232-2574 (phone); (512) 232-2311 (fax)

   

  Presenters:		Co-Sponsors:

   

   

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