Poverty& ce POVERTY & RACE RESEARCH ACTION COUNCIL

March, 1992 Volume 1: No.1

"\tVelco1ne to the Inaugural Issue of Poverty & Race, the newsletter of PRRAC, The Poverty & Race Re­search Action Council.

This last-mentioned section is, in our view, the most impor­tant function of the newsletter. To use a clicM, its success de-­pends on you. This section will consist of material all of you send in to share with other researchers and activists in the PRRAC networlc. Items in the "Resources" section will appear as short blurbs. We want you to send in references to reports, articles and books you think we all should know about, short de­scriptions of the work you are involved in as researchers and ac­tivists, upcoming conferences, requests for assistance or infor­mation, job listings -- in short, anything you think might be of interest or use to others in the network. We will list contacts for all items so that anyone in the network can get in touch directly.

We intend to publish bi-monthly (although we may begin quarterly, depending on the amount of material we have in this initial start-up period). The newsletter is going out to some 1800 peopie, primarily folks who have responded to our brochure by sending in the coupon asking to be on our mail­ing list. A short-fonn list of everyone receiving this issue is enclosed in order to let you to know who is in our network. A major reason for our existence is to facilitate and encourage communication among researchers, among activists/ advocates, and between the two groups, all working on race and poverty issues and committed to ending racism and pov­erty in America with all speed.

Our newsletter will have four sections: 1) News about om organization; 2) A substantive article (in this issue, Eric Mann discusses why his organix.ati.on wrote a book and uses an ideological approach in its organizing work); 3) Progress reports and final reports from our grantees; 4) A "Resources" section.

We welcome llllSOlicited pieces (reprinted items okay) to use as the longer substantive piece in each issue, as well as queries as to our interest in such a contribution. We also will consider publishing letters and commentaries from readers.

We hope you enjoy this new addition to the pile of publica­tions you already receive. We welcome your responses and suggestions. And if you know of anyone not on our list who should be, please send in names and addresses .. ,

Chester Hartman Executive Director

PRF-1AC Awards 12 New Research Grants At its October 7 meeting, the PRRAC

Board approved 12 new research grants. on the recommendation of the Board's Re­search Review Committee:

The Food Research and Action Cen­ter will expand its Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (OCHIP) to examine the relationship between hunger and poverty. The standard CCHIP survey instrument (used in seven states to date) will be modified to help redefine the feder­al poverty line and advocate for changes in the Food Stamp program that will produce higher benefits for poor people. Colum­bus and a rural Ohio site will be the focus for this research.

Grant arrwunt: $10,000. Contact: Cheryl Wehler, FRAC, 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, #540, Washington, DC 20009; (202) 986-2200; (508) 872-4448.

La Cooperativa Campesina de Cali­fornia is challenging the 1990 Census enumeration, via administrative advocacy and litigation, regarding the undercount­ing of farmworkers. Due to seasonality and imprecise categorization, such work­ers may be undercounted by as much as

half. Race, language, education level, family living patterns, immigration status and crowded housing interact to produce this undercount, which results in under­funding of various farmworker housing, health, education and employment pro­grams. PRRAC's funds will support tech­nical work to demonstrate the under­count. La Cooperativa is working with Calif. Rural Legal Assistance in develop­ing the litigation component.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: George Ortiz, La Coopera­tiva Campesina de California, 2222 N Street, Sacramento, CA 9581; (916) 442-4791.

Richard LeGates, a lawyer/planner on the San Francisco State University fa­culty, and UCLA lawyer/planner Allan Heskin will undertake. research related to a pending state legislative proposal (SB 270) that would require tenants to deposit 20 days' rent with the court as a condition of �g any defense against eviction actions. A study by landlord groups claimed that at least $270 million a year is lost by landlords while tenants fight eviction, and that landlords win the over­whelming majority of such cases. LeG­ates' and Heskin's research, which will challenge those conclusions and offer the perspective of tenants and the society as a whole on the matter of fighting eviction actions, will be used by a coalition of ad­vocacy groups seeking to defeat this leg­islation.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Prof. Richard LeGates,

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Poverty & Race Research Action Council• 1875 Connecticut Ave .• NW• Suite 714 • Washington, DC 20009 • (202) 387-9887 • FAX (202) 986-2539

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Urban Studies J,Jepartment, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, CA 94132; (415)338-6176.

John Brittain i.s part of a litigation team -- which includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Puer­to Rican Legal Defense and Education Fllll.d, the American Civil Liberties Un­ion, the Connecticut ACLU, the Hispanic Advocacy Project, and Wesley Horton (attorney in the Horton v. Meskill Con­necticut school financing case) -- 1hat has brought a state constitutional challenge t.o de facto racial, linguistic and economic segregation in the Hartford school sys­tem (Sheff v, O'Neill). Funding will be used to hire a locally-based education­al consultant to coordinate the work of the social science expert witnesses assist­ing in the case.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Prof John Brittai,1, Uni­versity of Connecticut School of Law, 65 Elizabeth St., Hartford, er 06105-2290; (203) 241-4664.

The New Haven Legal Assistance A�ation, along with the Connecticut ACLU, has filed a public housing �g­regation suit agairu;t HUD, the city of New Haven, and the New Haven Housing Authority. At issue is the city's failure to replace 366 units of demolished high-rise public housing. Yale Rabin will conduct studies evaluating the segregative impact of past city and federal actions and exam­ining proposed sites for replacement housing.

Grant anwunt: $5,DOD. Contact: Glenn Falk, New Haven Legal Assistance Assn, 426 State St.,

New Haven, CT 06510-2018; (203) ,;.,777--4811; Yale Rabin, 9 Farrar St., Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 661-0037.

Richard Rothstein will undertake re­search to define an "acceptable" mini­mum wage for developing nations seek­ing trade preferences in the US market. The research will be used to support a lawsuit brought by the International La­bor Rights Education and Research Fund against the government for failure to im­plement the workers' rights provision of the Generalized System of Preferences Act (the so-called Pease Amendments, which require denial of tariff waivers to nations that are not taking steps to imple­ment guarantees of internationally recog­nized workers' rights). Other advocacy

work the research will support includes strengthening the Pease Amendments and petitions the ILRERF wants to file with the US Trade Representative alleging that products exported to the US are being manufactured under unrux:eptable condi­tions of work with regard to minimum wages. This woli:: has as one clear focus protection of low-income and minority workers in the US whose wage levels and living standards are being undermined via exploitation of foreign workers by US and multinational corporations.

Grant ar,wunt: $10,000. Contact: Richard Rothstein, 8036 Elden Ave. Whittier, CA 90602; (310) 945-8950

The National Network for Immi­grant and Refugee Right.s is seeking to document patterns of employer discrimi­nation against immigrant minority wod­ers, due t.o the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. A network of 8-9 local immigrant projects (in NYC, SF, LA, Houston, Newark, Chicago, Miami, San Jose) will cany out local documenta­tion, via interviews with about 500 em­ployers. The Network will coordinate and integrate these local research efforts and use them to develop links with the civil rights and labor movements and women's groups, as part of general public education and efforts to have Congress repeal IR.CA.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Cathi Tactaquin, National

Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, '»5 Market St., Suite 1108, San Francisco, CA 94103; (415)243-8215

Saint Mark's Head Start Center, which works closely with ACORN, is at­tempting to organize parents around is­sues of school equity and improvement and parent involvement .in the Flatbusb

. section of Brooklyn. Parents will under-take research on local school programs and deficiencies, focussing additionally on improper zone assignments that im­pact children and parents negatively.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Marie Cumberbatch/Cate Poe, St. Mark's Head Start Center, 2017 Beverly Rd., Brooklyn, NY 11226; (718) 287-7300.

The Poverty Law Center/Orange County Health Organizing and Action Project will identify patients who have experienced barriers to health care ac­cess, in violation of California's Indigent

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Medical Secvices program. OCHOAP has worked on the access issue for many years, via: 1) access-oriented research and policy analysis (undertaken largely by a group of physicians at UC-Irvine Medical School, led by Howard Waitz� kin); 2) direct-action organizing and ad­vocacy; 3) legal action, coordinated by the Poverty Law Center. A class action is planned against the coWlty on behalf of poor persons eligible for IMS who are not receiving benefits.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Dr. Howard Waitzkin, North Orange County Community Clinic, 300 W. Romneya Dr., Anaheim, CA 92801; (714) 774-9831.

PrairieFire, an organization that ef­fectively fought against fann foreclosures during the l 980s, is now working on the issue of exploitation of minority workers being recruited (largely from the South­west) to work in meatpacking p1ants in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Research will focus on recruitment and hiring prac­tices, violation of state and federal work­ers' rights laws, and the impact of these new minority workers on rural communi­ties. The research will support a range of advocacy/organizing strategies, including community and worker education and training, commWlity organizing, coali­tion development, and new public poli­cy initiatives. The initial focus will be on Iowa.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Rev. David Ostendorf, PrairieFire, 550 Eleventh St., Des Moines.IA 50309; (515)244-5671.

'!'he Sent.eocing Project will under-take a comparative study of how the legal system treats drug offenses and alcohol­related driving (DWI) offenses, and the race and class implications of this dispari­ty. Similar to its recent reports on com­parative international incarceration rates and on yoWlg African-American males in college compared with how many are in prison, on parole or awaiting sentencing, the project will undertake a public educa­tion campaign and work for public policy initiatives based on its research work.

Grant amount: $10,000. Contact: Marc Mauer/Malcolm Young, The Sentencing Project, 918 F St. NW, #501, Washington, DC 20004; (202) 6:iB-0871.

The Student Advocacy Center will study four alternative models of parent involvement/outreach in low-income

Grant amount; $10,000. communities in Michigan, via participato­ry research. The results will be used to en­hance SAC's capacity to respond effective­ly to requests for help from community groups and to identify and reach out to communities where school problems are severe but the community has not coa­lesced. This project supports earliec and current work that led to enactment of leg­islation banning corporal punishment and introduction of progressive legislation to deal with the various problems of exclu­sion of students from school.

Contact: Ruth Zweifler, Student Advo­cacy Center, 617 E. University, Ann Arbor, Ml 48104; (313) 995-0477.

ly) and needed this survey to bo1srer its court pleadings. (At this writing. the re­cent DC cold spell has already led to at least five deaths among homeless street people.)] [fhe Washington Legal Clinic for

the Homelas nx:.eived a small emergency grant to undertake a qui'ck survey of homeless men turned away from two city shelters. with nearly 300 beds, closed by the DC government Jast summer as part of its budget cutbacks. The Clinic sought a temporary restraining order (unsuccessful-

(1/ you have not already received our September mailing describing .

PRRAC's first 23 research grants, we'll be happy to send you the com­plete list. Please enclose a Self Ad­dressed Stamped Envelope [SASE}).

PRRAC Update New Grant Application Deadline. We originally announced February 28th as the deadline for applications to be considered at our Spring Board meeting. Since this newsletter is arriving later than we expected, we will be a little more flexible with om Spring application deadline. If you have some-­thing to submit, phone us immediately to discu� it and our revised deadline. As always, any requests that have an inherent urgency will be processed as rapidly as need be, with no deadlines.

Revised PR RAC Brochure. We recently reprinted and revised our basic brochure, listing new Board members, our new Social Science Advisory Board, and maldng clearer the process of applying for PRRAC research grants. We'd be happy to send you as many brochures as you think you can use for distri­bution to colleagues, at meetings, etc. We also would very much like to know of relevant lists, conferences, publications, etc. through which we can distribute our brochure and otherwise reach those who should know about PRRAC.

Lo�al Meetings of Researchers and Advocates. In late October we organized meetings in Los Angeles and San Francisco involv­ing about a dozen persons each from the advocate and research commwtlties working on race and poverty issues. The meetings were extremely useful and suc­cessful in having people get to know each other and each others' work and discuss issues and needs of each group.

One of the really good suggestions to come out of the LA meeting was creation of a local directory of academic resoUl'CeS (researchers and their work, intern availability, technical assistance, expert witnesses. etc.) that local advocates can draw on. With the help of Derek Shearer and Manuel Pastor of the Occidental College Public Policy Centec (which hosted and helped organize our LA meet­ing5; a model directory and methodology for creating it is being produced for the LA area. We then hope to produce local directories for other large metropolitan areas. in conjunction with futme local meetings.

We would like to organize similar meetings around the country in 1992. If you have an interest in helping us plan such a meeting in your area or suggestions for participants or host organi7,ations, please let us know as soon as possible.

War,t ·to Present Your V\fork to a Washington Audience? We'll be glad to host and help you publicize a presentation of your research and/or advocacy work on race and poverty issues·. Let us know well in advance when you'll be in Washington, give us guidance on whom or what kinds of people to invite, and we'll send out the notices and sponsor your talk (usually best held over lunchtime). Our office is a few blocks above Dupont Cir­cle, right across from the Washington Hilton, and we have access to a small (10-15 person) and larger (up to 35 person) meeting room.

Our New Socnai

Science Advisor1, Board We have just established a Social Science

Advisory Board of 15 distinguished, commit­ted social scientists representing a range of dis­ciplines, institutions and areas of interest They will serve to bring us into closer contact with the research community, assist in evaluating and formulating our overall research work. help us (in their individual capacity) with eval­uation of specific research proposals and prob­lems, provide us with suggested outlets for publishing the results of the research we fund. and offer us wise counsel in many other ways. The Advisory Board will meet for the first time on April 10th. 118 members are:

Richard Berk, UCLA Department of Sociolo­gy

Fratik Bonilla, Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Linda Darling-Hammond, Columbia Univ. Teachers College

Cynthia Duncan, Univ. New Hampshire De­partment of Sociology

Roberto Fernandez, Northwestern Univ. Cen­tec for Uiban Affairs

Heidi Hartmann, Inst for Women's Policy Re­search (Wash., DC)

William Kornblum, CUNY Centec for Social Research

Harriette McAdoo, Michigan State School of Human Ecology

Fernando Me,u1'Jr.a, Stanford Univ. Center for Chicano Research

Ronald Mincy, Urban Institute (Wash., DC) Paul Ong. UCLA Grad School Architecture &

Urban Planning Gary Orfrel4, Harvard Univ. Grad School of

Education Gary Sandefur, Univ. Wisconsin Inst. for Pov­

erty Research Gall Thomas, Texas A&M Race & Ethnic

Studies Inst. Margaret Weir, Harvard Univ. Department of

Government

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PRRAC Feature

How Publishing a Book Helped Our Organizing Process

In September of 1991, the Labor/

Community Strategy Center, a multi­racial center for policy and organizing, published L.A.'s Lethal Air: New Strate­gies for Policy, Organizing, and Action. The book was the culmination of two years of research and study involving more than 20 people in the analytical and editing process, and more than $50,000 in funds.

The book's objectives were: 1) To serve u the centerpiece of a molti-year organizing plan to build a new environ­mental organization, the Labor/ Community WATCHDOG, with a pri­mary emphasis on outreach to workers, residents of coII1JI1unities of color, and low-income people;

2) To articu,ate a new environmen­tal politics that focuses on the public health impacts of the environmental crisis in general, air pollution in particular, on workers, people of color, women, and the poor; that places the blame for the envi­ronmental crisis squarely on the policies of corporate elites; that articulates new programs for environmentally sound in­dustrial, transportation, tax, and urban planning policy; and that helps generate new social movements of workers, peo­ple of color, and progressive profession­als to directly challenge corporate pollu­ti&i1, priorities, and power.

3) To help shape the regional and national strategic debate among envi­ronmental justice activists, especially those in communities of color. traditional environmental activists looking for new answers, refonn elements of the union movement, and those concerned about re­building a hard-hitting, grass-roots, dem­ocratic Left.

It will take at least a year for us to meaningfully evaluate how well L.A. 's Letha.I Air will have met its objectives. One objective. however, has been met al­ready - the book's existence has begun to generate the first hints of a broader de­bate about the role of ideology and Strate-

by Eric Mann

gy in the organizing process. Several ac­tivists from influential organizations in the environmental justice and progressive movements have made comments along the order of, "The book: looks great, it raises some important questions, it even offers some challenging answers, but you can't build a social movement around a

book. The Strategy Center would have spent its time, money, and organiurs' en­ergies more wisely by putting more peo­ple in the streets, and using less ambi­tious and costly educational materials. And given your emphasis on worlrers and communities of color, we're not sure how useful a book is for yow stated goal of building an organization."

We appreciate the openly stated chal­lenge. Here are our answers to ''Why so much emphasis on a book in the organiz­ing process?"

Confronting the ideology of the Right

Today, the political Right understands the role of ideas in the process of social transfonnation far better than the now dispirited and defensive Left, and has gone on the offensive with ideas of the "free market," "management rights,'' and "deregulation," attacking ideas of soci� justice with effective distortions such as "reverse discrimination" and "political correctness."

L.A. 's Letha.I Air, as an effort to create a popular, assertive, environmental mani­festo with clearly articulated anti­corporate politics, needs the book fonnat because so many of the operating as­sumptions of today's organizers have been impacted by more than 15 years of the Right's hegemony that a comprehen­sive analysis is needed to challenge those assumptions. For example, we outline "The Corporate Source of the Problem" in Chapter 5 of the book, to counrer those who believe that "we all" are equally re­sponsible for the environmental crisis,

· those who buy styrofoam cups and Exxon

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which spills tons of oil off the coastline of Alaska, and those who advise us, "1 know that coqiorate polluters are the overwhelming source of the problem but its political suicide to appear to be ideo­logically anti-corporate in today's cli­niate."

We do not begin the book, therefore, with a bald assertion that corporations are the primary source of the problems, but rather with a chapter on the chemistry of air pollution, and then two chapters on the health impacts of air pollution, with particular emphasis on class, race, and gender, and on which corporations and which chemical processes produce the chemicals that produce those problems. Then, when we make om case about why we feel that democratic economic control over "privately held" corporate decisions is necessary, the argument flows from a step-by-step public health, chemical, ethi­cal, and logical discussion of cause and effect.

L.A. 's Lethal Air is not just a book about "strategy" in the abstract, but a stra­tegic debate with many of the mainstream environmental groups, and even with some of the most militant grassroots tox­ics groups. The lalter, often without full consciousness, adhere to a highly plura­listic view of U.S. society in which "the empowerment" of oppressed people through the "skills and resources" of the "organizer" (and not ideology or strategy) equals quantitative social change within a basically just and workable system.

By contrast, the Strategy Center and WATCHDOG believe that a critique of the system's unjustness and unwon:ability and its srructural opposition to fundamen­tal social change is a critical first step in the organizing process; and that "organiz­ing," while of course focusing on devel­opment of skills and resources, is primar­ily a prod.net of ideology, strategy, and consciousness, reflected in political edu­cation, leadership development, and or­ganizational coosttuction.

The book fonn best allows us to dem­onstrate the methodology by which we reach our conclusions, and is a written ex­planation of how we plan to build our own organization and carry out our own theories into practice.

Writing as a_ process of devei1oping theory and buiidtng organization

Some people assume that "writing" is merely a mechanical process of putting down what you already understand. For us, the writing process begins with a �y­pothesis and a basic analysis, and then m­volves a steep uphill learning curve as the writing process exposes factual inadequa­cies, flawed reasoning, unpersuasive argu­ments, and political disagreements within the organization.

The core group of 20 people who par­ticipated in the formulation of LA.'s Le­

thal Air had rich histories as organizers, which prepared us for the obvious but not always agreed upon assumption that a_n organizer has to know what she or he is tallcing about; and the more complex the problem, such as the industrial and trans­portation policies at the root of much of the mban air pollution, the more complex the study and preparation of the organizer.

We used the writing of LA.'s Letha( Air as a step in the training of organizers. In the process of reading public health re­ports and analyses of smog and air toxins, analyzing om strategies and those of other environmental organizations, and devel­oping specific programs for policy and or­ganizing, we raised our own understand­ing and consciousness a hundredfold. The result, ovenill, was a far larger, clcar­ec, and more unified organization.

Soe_ie felt that such explicit iresenta­tion of politics was "condescending" to low-income communities who could best "figure things out themselves.• We coun­tered that in an age when the dominant ideology, presented in the media, through both political parties and through every cultural and woxkplace institution, bas never been more explicitly and forcefully �nted by the establishment, to assume that the "consciousness" of the people in oppressed communities is "their own," freely arrived at and only to be mechani­cally organized into "actions," leaves them hostage to only one side of the argu­ment. It is precisely in an extended politi­cal dial1Jgue with the people you want to

organize, with politics presented openly and honestly, that real mutual respect and mutual ability to impact each other's thinking is possible. In our view, it is the "spoonfeeding of the oppressed" and "hiding of one's agenda," or, worse, the absence of an agenda, that teflects the worst of what passes for "grassroots orga­nizing."

Re-est;tblfshing traditions of literacy in oppressed communities

L.A. 's Lethal Air is being used by or­ganizers, going from door � door in lo�· income, predominantly Lat1no and Afri­can American communities, talking to union activists in service and industrial workplaces, and recruiting faculty and students in both "working-class" and "elite" colleges. Not just in the commu­nities, but in the workplaces and universi­ties, the majority of the constituencies we are targeting, and who are most attracted to om organizing plan, are people of col­or.

One of the many victories of the Right's re--writing of history is the view that people of color and low-income peo­ple don't read, or that we are now "in the age of television and films." Unfortu­nately, there is a kernel of truth in this fa­cile oversimplification: traditions of liter· acy are being eroded, and a whole generation of all classes and races is los­ing the ability to sit qoietly and think. We are well aware that many people in oppressed communities have reading problems or are illiterate, but many com­munity membecs do read and are bungiy for good literature. Our direct experience has shown that many of the most effec­tive worker and community leaders are avid readers of everything from environ­mental impact reports to books on politi­ca 1 strategy.

Combatting passivity -· involving the reader as thinker, then actor

LA.'s Lethal Air ends with a member­ship card, encouraging the reader ID join the WATCHDOG. It makes an explicit and immediate connection between thought and action. It is, by design, a short book, utilizing techniques to maxi• mize reader interest. such as multi-color graphics, more than 50 photos and charts, "side bars" with sketches of key activists,

many headlines, an<l short sub•sections within the chaptr,rs to allow two- and three--page rest-stops for digestion. and a straightforward writing style that at­tempts to clarify but not oversimplify a complex treatment of a complex_ subject.

Our present plan is to publish a S�­ish edition in 1he Spring of 1992, which will dramatically expand the impact of our ideas to some of the key communi­ties and individuals we are attempting to reach, and allow further testing of our organizing hypotheses.

Finally, while we have emphasized the unique and pivotal role a book plays in our organizing work, we utilize the book in a multi•faceted tactical ap­proach, not as a rigid tactic standing on its own. Right now we have three full­time organi7.ers going door to door us­ing public health questionnaires as �ur main fonn of initiating public health dis­cussions in highly vulnerable communi­ties. We have just won a milestone, one•year campaign to convince the South Coast Air Quality :Management District, a mega-agency responsible for cleaning up L.A. 's air, to pass a "Social Equity Amendment" that we introduced to prevent air policies from discriminat­ing against workers based on race, gen­der, income, union membership, and disability. We publish articles, produce films, organize press conferences and demonstrations, use leaflets, hoose meetings and many other tactics to ex� pand the influence of our worlc.

The Strategy Center's efforts ID de­velop a new school of thought that rer emphasizes the role of ideology and consciousness in the organizing process made om decision to focus so much en­ergy on the publication of an analysis/ polemic/manifesto on environmental politics a logical outgrowth of our orga­nizers' worldview.

Eric Mann is Director of the Lo.barf Community Strategy Center and auJhor of LA 's Lethal Air (the book may be or­dered from them, $15: 14540 Haynes St., #200, Van Nuys, CA 91411, 818/ 781-4800). Mann's earlier book is 1il&.

ing on General Motors: A Case Study <!l the UAW Compaiw to Keep GM Van

Mlµ 0mm (UCLA Inst. of Industrial Relations, 1987).

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P�RRAC Researchers R,epo�rt

Final Report from our Rhode lsla.nd Legal Services/Project

One of PRRAC's earliest grants has contributed significantly to the successful effort by minority plaintiffs in Provi­dence. RI to require that replacement housing provided by the Providence Housing Authority (PHA) meet Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights Act stan­dards. The litigation, Project BASIC v. Kemp, filed in April of 1989, sought to prevent the demolition of 240 units of the predominantly black and Latino-occupied Hartford Park public housing project lo­cated in a predominantly white census tract, and challenged the PHA's plan to locate over 75% of the replacement units in predominantly minority sections of the cily. The vast majority of persons resid­ing in or on the waiting list for family public housing in Providence are racial minorities.

Fair housing violations Project BASIC, a statewide, low­

income and minority advocacy organua­tion, was represented by Rhode Island Le­gal Services (RILS). RILS attorney Ste­ven Fischbach argued that the proposed demolition and replacement housing plan violated the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act., and the 5th and 14th Amend­ments to the U.S. Constitution because they discriminated against racial minori­ties, and had the plDJ)ose and effect of in­crem,ing racial segregation in Providence.

In late 1989 the U.S. District Court re­fused to enjoin the demolition, holding that plaintiffs race discrimination claims were not ripe for adjudication. However, the Court ruled that the sites for the re­placement units had to comply with Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights Act re­quirements, and ordered the PHA to com­plete construction of the replacement units within 23 months.

The main focus of the litigation then shifted to the challenge to the PHA plan for replacement housing. To prevail on this issue, plaintiffs needed to convince the Court that the sites proposed would

perpetuate or increase housing segrega­tion in Providence, and that those effects would disproportionately harm black families, who comprised 90% of the waiting list for family public housing, and would harm the City of Providence as a whole. In order to document those effects, Rll.S received a PR.RAC grant to retain Yale Rabin, an urban planning ana• lyst on the MIT faculty. Rabin has con­ducted numerous studies of the impact of public actions on low-income minority groups and appeared many times as an expert witness in housing and land-use related civil rights litigation during the past 25 years.

Continued 1·awlessness

At the time Rabin was retained, the PHA had already demolished the 240-wtlt project and had proceeded, with HUD approval, to acquire sites for and construct over half of the replacement units. HUD had directed the PHA to lo­cate at least half of the 240 replacement lDlits "outside areas of minority concen­tration" (defined by HUD as .census tracts having a larger proportion of minorities than the citywide average of 21.4% in 1980); and to proceed with a construction schedule that would result in equal num­bers of units under construction inside and outside areas of minority concentra­tion. However, it soon became clear that neither HUD nor the PHA was talcing these directives seriously.

Despir.e the HUD directives, PHA had proceeded to locate most sites in areas of minority concentration, and had begun the great bulk of construction in those ar­eas. Delays in proceeding in predomi­nantly white areas had resulted in the loss of sites for at least 36 units due to racial­ly motivated opposition. In October, 1990, in response to these actions, RILS filed a Motion for Enforcement of the Court Order that sites for the replacement units comply with the Fair Housing Act and the Civil Rights Act.

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Research support The District Court set a lrial date for

8 April, 1991, ordered all parties to file pre-trial motions by mid-February, and indicated it would rule on plaintiff's mo­tion after trial. HUD and PHA then moved for summary judgement, con­tending that HUD's approval of sites sat­isfied the requirements of the Fair Hous­ing Act, and that HUD's lawful approval of sites insulated PHA from liability un­der the Fair Housing Act.

In March of 1991 RILS, on behalf of Project BASIC, responded to the swn­mary judgement motions by contending that there were genuine issues of materi­al fact that required resolution of plain­tiffs claims at trial. In support of its po­sition, Project BASIC submitted Professor Rabin's report containing his evaluation of the replacement housing sites and his conclusions that the sites as proposed would reduce opportunities for low-income minority families to live in integrated areas, increase the level of minority concentration in existing areas of minority concentration, reinforce the identity of areas of minority concentra­tion, and increase the level of segrega­tion in public housing.

Rabin's analysis demonstrated that the PHA's site proposals and their demo­graphic consequences were significantly different from what PHA initially repre­sented them to be. By superimposing the proposed sites on a 1980 block map of minority population, it became clear that the vast majority of sites, even those within majority white tracts, had been located in or adjacent to existing minority concentrations. By comparing the proposed sites to a time-series (1960, 1970, 1980) set of block maps of minority population, it became evident that almost all sites approved to date were in areas already in transition from white to minority. In some cases pro­posed sites in majority white tracts were separated from heavily minority concen­trated areas by nothing more than the

imaginary line on the map representing lhe tract boundary.

In addition, analysis of the demograph­ic trends revealed by the time-series set of maps strongly suggested that reliance by the PHA and HUD on 10-year-old 1980 Census traet data bad the effect of snb­st.antially 1D1derslaring lhe actual degree of minority concentration that existed in 1990 in several � claimed by the PHA to be majority white. These changes, pre­dicted from the evidence of the time­series maps, were subsequently confirmed by 1990 Census data. which ftttunately became available just prior to the begin­ning of settlement negotiations in April of 1991.

· Finally, in addition to their neglect of the demographic changes that had oc­cmed during the decade since the 1980 Census, neither the PHA nor HUD had made any attempt to assess the demo­graphic changes that would result from implementation of the PHA's proposals. In one tract which was undeigoing rapid racial transition, but which was 0.8% be­low the citywide minority population av­erage of 21.4% in 1980, the PHA pro­posed, and HUD approved, the location of 36 replacement units. Consttuction and occupancy of those units would have in­creased the minority proportion of that

tract to nearly 24%.

On 2 April, 1991 the District Court denied the PHA/HUD summary judge­ment motions and rejected the argwnent that HUD's approval of sites iosula1ed PHA from liability wider the Pair Hous­ing Act. The Court strongly hinted that it would find PHA and HUD in viol.ation of the Fair Housing Act, and urged the parties to settle.

The consent decree A few days later, on the eve of trial.

Project BASIC settled the litigation with HUD, the PHA, and the City of Provi­dence. HUD and the PHA agreed, re­spootively, to fund and construct the re­maining 109 Hartford Park replacement units in Providence census tracts that, ac� cording to the 1990 Census, have a lower proportion of minorities than the city as a whole, and outside two tracts that al­ready have large nwnbers of public hous­ing units. The units are to be completed within three years of the settlement agreement Moreover, should the PHA decide to sell any of the replacement units, the PHA will seek funding from HUD for new public housing units to re­place each unit sold.

The City of Providence agreed not to interfere with the development of the

109 replacement units; to keep Project BASIC informed of all applications for housing assistance; and to perform, at Project BASICS request, a Fair Housing Assessment of any housing assistance ap­plication. The Qty will also actively in­volve Project BASIC in the annual devel­opment of its Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS). The City affirmed its support for additional shelter and transitional housing facilities for the · homeless; agreed to use federal, state. and local housing assistance to increase the supply of low-income housing and fa­cilities for the homel� outside areas of minority concentration; agreed to encour­age and pennit the development of shel­ters and low-income housing in all Provi­dence neighborhoods; and agreed not to support the demolition and sale of other public housing without obtaining one-for­one replacement of those units with other public housing units. Finally, the City will incorporate each of these policies into its CHAS.

For further information about the re­search or litigation, contact Yale Rabin, 9 Farrar St., Cambridge, MA 02138, 6f7l66HJ037, or Steve Fischbach, RJLS, 77 Dorrance St., Providence, RI 02903, 401/274-2652.

New PRRAC Board Members

..

At its October 7 meeting, the PRRAC Board added seven new members: Gary Delgado, Executive Director of the Applied Research Center in Oakland. CA; fonner Executive

Director and still Board President of the Ceott.c for Third Wo�ld Organizing in Oakland.

S.M. (Milce) Miller, emeritus professor of economics and sociology at Boston University and currently Senior Fellow at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, MA .

Susana Navarro, Director of the Southwest Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Tex­as, El Paso; former Director of The Achievement Council of Los Angeles and Oakland and Director of Research and Policy Analysis for the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Don Nakanishi. Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center; Co-Founder of Amerasia Journal; Commissioner, Los Angeles Board of Transportation.

Susan Sechler, Director of the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program, Washington, DC; former �puty Director of Economics, Policy Analysis and Budget., US Dept. of Agriculture.

Esmeralda Simmons, Director of the Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College (CUNY), Brooklyn: recently Vice-Chair of the NYC Districting Commission; fonner First Deputy Commissioner, NY State Division of Human Rights.

Jullith Winston, professor of law at American University, Washington, DC; former Deputy Director for Public Policy, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Deputy Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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Resources

The Resources section of Pov­erty & Race is designed to ex­change useful information in pithy fashion. It will serve that function only lo the extent that reooarchers and activists in the PRRAC Network want to share what they .know with each other. cw-rent work and projects, rele­vllllt books, articles and reports, conferences.jobs, etc., etc. We've grouped the items by major cate­gories, but there is frequent sub­ject overlap, so it probably pays to scan the whole section. Try to use the briefest form for if.ems you send in (ideally, write them up yourself following the style we use). If you have materials available.. be sure to indicaJe the price of materials fur sale (indi­cate if free), whether you require a Self Addressed Stamped Enve­lope, SASE (w\CI if so, note lhe required postage). Since we have not yet decided whether to go immediately into a bi-monthly production schedule or to start on a qu!II'terly basis (much of the answer depends on how much material you all sub­mit for dissemination to our net­work), we can't put forward a closing date for the next issue. Once we are on a regular publish­ing schedule, we will include that information with each issue. Communications can always be faxed to us at 202f.}86-2539.

NOTE: ru is inevitable with pe­riodic publications, it.ems we re­ceive often have deadlines earlier th·an when we publish (or when you receive our newsletter, given the appropriately named third­class mail system). We nonethe­less will occasionally print what appear to be stale items, because stated deadlines are often in fact flexible (a phone call can easily asoertain this) and because even dated items can provide useful contacts or information of future value..

Community Organizing � "The Organizer Mailing" is a quarterly collection of repinted

articles and documents of interest to working organizers, leaders and supporters of organizing. A recent packet contained 34 re.. prints (95 pp.) of ilems from a wide variety of publications. $40/year individuals, $50 organi­zations, from The Orgllilize Trruning Center (run by Mike Miller), 1095 M!II'ket St. #419, SF, CA 94103, 415/552--8990,

� The GrasffOOIB Econumi,c Organklng Newsldll!r is a new publication on issues like work­place democracy, the environ­ment, and labor. It has an interna­tional as well as US focus. The first il!llue features pieces on Ja­pan's Seik:yo Cooperative Feden­tion, an emerging worker takeo­ver of the North American steel industry, and two organizing pro• jects (Merrimack. Valley Project, Lawrence, MA end Naugatuck Valley Project, Waterbury, CT). $12/yr (at least 5 issues) for indi­viduals, $24 for libraries and or­ganizatioll8, from GEO Newslet• ter, PO Box 5065, New Haven, CT 06525.

,. Aftu Alinsly: Community Organizing in llllnols, ed. Peg Knoepfle, is a new book, availa­ble ($13 .95) from Illinois Issues, Sangamon St Univ., Springfield, IL 62794-9243, 211ns6-6084.

:t Organizer Training: A 7-page "Consumer's Guide to Or· ganizer Training," by Patti Wol­ter (from the Oct/Nov. The Neighborhood W or.ts) -- with ba­sic data on the Midwest Acade­my, Ctr. for Third World Orga­nizing, Grass.roots Leadership and similar groups - plus an ad­dendum (by Donna Schaper) on church-based organizer training groups is available from us with a SASE.

• Community- Organ.1zlng Documentary: On Bo"owed Land is a 51-minute film, by Matthew Westfall, on Re.clama­tion, a Philippine squatter com­munity outside Manila, where 50,000 residents laid out streets and establishoo a rudimentary saniwy system, security force, schools and day-care center&. It won the Amer. Planning &sn's.

1991 Paul Davidoff Award for its commitment to advocacy planning in support of the needs of society's "have-nots." Availa­ble for rent or sale from Cinema Guild, 1697 Broadway #802, NYC, NY 10019, 212/246-5522.

<ll Cummrmily Mullen is a newsletter on working communi­ty strategies, critical policy is­sues and coalition activities, pub­lished by the Community Workshop on Econ. Dev., lOOS. Morgan St., Chicago, Il. 60607, 312/243-07A9. $15/year for 11 issues.

Economic Oeveiopment ,, Community-Based Develop­ment: "Expanding Horizons II" is a 55-page research report on corporate and foundation support of community-based develop­ment. $18 from The Council on Community-Based Development, 1070 Thos. Jefferson St. NW, Wash. DC 20007. 11 Community-Based Develop­ment: "Changing the Odds: The Achievements of Community­Based Development Corpora­tions" (Dec. 1991) is 1110-page summary of a follow-up to a 1988 survey. Available (appar­ently free) &om the Natl. Con• gress for Community Economic Development, 1875 Conn. Ave. NW #524, Wash., DC 20009, 202/234-5009. They also have available a fact sheet on a Natl. Community Economic Partner­ship Act just introduoed in the House and Senate.

a Ckvelmul Development: A DisSl!nting View, ooited by Alvin Schorr, is a new 118-page book, challenging the city's tax abate­ment policies and the :redistribu­tional impacts of downtown de­velopment. $10.45 from David Press, 12127 Sperry Rd., Ches­terltl!ld, OH 44026, 216n2CJ. 3252.

• Troding Freedom: How Free Trade Affects Our UveK, Work and En•ironment is a new 140-page book. edited by John Cava-

nagh et al., put out by the Inst. for Food and Development Poli­cy and the Inst. for Policy Stud­ies. $10 + $3.50/postage­handling from IFDP, 145 9th St.,

SF, CA 94103. o Deindustrializafion: The Federation for Industrial Relf:n­ti.on & Renewal deals with deindustrialization, displacement and reinduslrialization issues from a progressive, rommunity­based standpoint. For more in­formation about their WOik (na­tionwide) and their newsletter, contact Jim Benn, FIRR, 3411 W. Diversey Ave. #10, Chicago, IL 60647, 312/252-7676.

"' JOBS Program: An interim report on implementation of the JOBS Program in North Caroli­na is avail.able (likely free) from Raymond Kirk, Hwnan Services Research & Design Lab, Aber­nathy Hall CB-#3570, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3570. ,. CRA Publications: "Partner­ships for Reinvestment: An Evaluation of the Neighborhood Lending Programs" and "The Community Reinvestment Act Handbook- 1991 Edition," both by Calvin Bradford, are availa­ble ($18 each, $13 each for com­munity-based nonprofits) from the Natl. Training and Inf. Ctr., 810 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chica­go, IL 60622-4103, 312/243· 3035 9 "Does Amerlca Need Cities? Ao Urban Investment Strat.egy for National Prosperity," ·by Joseph Pemky, Elliott Sclar and Wim Wiewel, is a new 55-page report, produced for the US Conf. of Mayors, and available (no price listed) from the Eoo­nomic Policy Inst., 1730 Rhode Island Ave. NW #200, Wash., DC 20036, 202{775-8810.

(,> "Shattered Promises: The PUght of Non-English Speak­ing Workers in Iowa's Meat­packing Industry" is a Sept 1991 16-page report by Prairie­Fire Rural Action. a PRRAC

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graolee (550 Eleventh SL, Des Moines, IA 50309, 515/244-5671); no price listed. They also publish a magazine, Prairie Journal. A letter from Rev. Da­vid Ostendorf, their Exec. Dir., notes: "It is uncanny -- and frightening -- how the issues we're addressing via this grant have exploded on the scene here in Iowa and the MidwesL The situation in Dubuque is incredi­bly explosive -- the enclosed Des Moines Register article (headlined: "Ku Klux Klan Tar­gets Dubuque: KKK dragon calls city ripe for new mem­ben"] gives you some indication of that. And there have probably been more croos burnings in this state in the past six months as there have been anywhere in the country."

Education

.- "Equal Educational Oppor­tunities for Pregnant and Pa­renting Students: Mesblng the Rights wtth the Realities" is a 53-page Sept. 1990 publication by the ACLU's Women's Rights Project in copPCration with the Amer. Assn. of Univ. Women. It discusses the schools' legal re­sponsibilities to young parents returning to complete or contin­ue their formal education and identifies funding arid other sources of support for develop­ment of programs to address these students' needs -- especial­ly timely since implementation of the Family Support Act will present school systems with an influx of young parents. Availa­ble"(likery free) from Jacqueline Berrien, ACLU, 132 W. 43 St., NYC, NY 10036, 21.2/944-9800.

�' "And Miles to Go .... :Bar­rien to Academic Achieve­ment and Innovative Strate• gles for the Delivery or Educational Services to Home­less Children" is a 170-page, Nov. 1991 report by Yvonne Rafferty of Advocates for Chil­dren of NYC ($15): 24-16 Bridge Plaza S., Long Island City, NY 11101. 718/729-8866.

$ Educational Innovation: The Salvadori Educational Cen­ter on the Built Environment (City College of NYC, NYC,

NY 10031, 2121650-5497) trains teachers and helps inner-city youth in over a dozen NYC schools understand science and math through hands-on study of the built environment

"" "School Reform Chicago Style: How Citizens Orpnb.ed to Change Public Policy" is a 40-page special issue of The Neighborhood Works (Ctr. for Neighborhood Technology, 2125 W. North Ave., Chicago, TI.. 60647, 312/278-4800). $7.50.

� ActiJ>e Voice is the newsletter of the Student Advocacy Center ( a PRRAC grantee). Contact them at 617 B. Univ. Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 313/995--0477.

Health

0 "California Asian Health J.s.. soes in the 1990s" is the 110-page report of an April, 1990 public hearing by the Calif. Com­mission for Economic Develop­ment. Copies ($5) from the Of­fice of the Lt. Governor, 71 1 Van Ness Ave. #305, SF, CA 94102.

• "Hispanic Access to Health Care: Significant Gaps Exist" is a 42-page statement by Elean­or Chelimsky of the Comptroller General's Office before the House Select Comm. on Aging and the Congressional. Hispanic Caucus. It's document GAO{f­PEMD-91-13, available (free) from the US Gen. Accounting Office, PO Box 6015, Gaithers­burg, MD 'lfJ877.

• "Health Apartheid in the U.S." is the Sommer 1991 issue of Health/PAC Bulletin. Contact them at 17 Murray St, NYC, NY 100J7, 212/267-8890.

... "Our Kids Are Not Im­mune: NYC's Fanure to Pre­vent Childhood Diseases" is a Dec., 1991 report by NYC Comp1rollel" Elizabeth Holtzman. Available (likely free) from Dr.

Bmry Skura, Room 517 Munici­pal Bldg., NYC, NY 10007, 212/669-7396.

& The Jo11r1Ull uf Health Care for du! Poor and Undenenetl :is a quarterly published by the Inst. on Heallh Care fur the Poor and Undersarved, Mehany Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208, 6151327-

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6279. The Institute also openttes welfare, housing, drugs, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. $8.95 from Yale Univ. Press, 92-A Yale Sta., New Haven, CT 06520, 203/432-0940.

�

• The AIDS Benefits Hand.­boolc, by Thomas McCormack, is a 240-page guide to Social Securi­ty, welfare, housing, drugs, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, ek:. $8.95 from Yale Univ. Press, 92-A Yale Sta., New Haven, CT 06520, 203/432-0940.

® Progressive Health Legisla­tion: The Natl. Assn. for Public Health Policy (c/o The Marin Inst., 24 Belvedere SL, San Ra­fael, CA 94901, 415/456-5692) bas available materials on The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1991 (S.1994, Sen. Kennedy). They are a pro­gressive public health organiza­tion and publish the Journal of Public Health Policy.

'* The Manual of Common Com­munJcable Diseases In Shellers, ed. James O'Connell, lMD and Jan­et Groth, RN, is based on su years' experience by the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Pro-.. gram. $21.95 from Fund for the Homeless, Boston Foundation, l Boslon Pl., 24th Or., Boston, MA 02108, 617/723-7415.

Homelessness

8 "Thi! Stanford Studies of Homeless Famllle!i, Children and Yo11th" is a 48-page sum~ mary of studies undertaken during 1990 and 1991 in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. It's available (no price listed) from the Stanford Ctr. for the Study of Families, Children and Youth, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-2135, 415/723-1706.

& "Preventing Homeles.tn� '' an intensive examination of seven state and local homelessness pre­vention programs, is available from the Natl. Housing Inst., 439 Main St., Orange, NJ 07050, 201/ 678-3110. Descriptions of home­lessness prevention services and contacts in 67 other cities and stak$ are provided in an appendix. $25.

• "Homeless Families: Failed PoUcles and YoUUK Vktims" is available ($450) from Chil­dren's Defense Fund, 122 C St. NW, Wash., OC 20001, 202/ 628-8787.

!!l Homelessness Videos: Five new videos on being homeless in America are available from Fanlight Productions, 47 Halifax St, Boston, MA 02130, 617 / 524-0980: "Health Care for the Homeless," "Shelter Stories," "Shooting Back" (photography by homeless children), "Slreet­life: The Invisible Family," and "Paper House." Free previews available. HPromises to Keep," the Academy Award nominee documentmy onilie workofthe late Mit.ch Snyder, ill available from Durrin Productions, 1748 Kalorarna Rd. NW, Wash., DC 20009, 800/536-6843. And "He­roes of the New American De­pression," a documentary on di­rect actions taken by the homeless to meet 1heir needs, is available from Skylight Pic­tures, 330 W. 42 St, 24th flr., NYC, NY, 2121947-5333. Final­ly in this category, there's Im­pact Visuals (28W. 27 St #901, NYC, NY 10001, 212/683-9688), a progressive cooperative of photojournalists that supplies photos, graphics, illustrations, cartoons, etc. for use in design­ing brochures. posters, reports, videos, books, etc. They spe­cialize in health care, homeless­ness/housing, the effects of waste disposal in minority and poor communities, and othe.r ar­eas of social concern.

� SRO Network; The Nation­al Alliance to End Homeless-ness has formed an SRO Net­work: to assist organizations preserving, developing and op­erating single-room and effi­ciency housing; they also will track relevant legislation, regu ­lations and other useful informa­tion. Alliance SRO NetwoI:t, 1518 K St., NW, Wash., DC 20005,200/638-1526.

0 "Heroes Today, Homeless

Tomorrow?Home�ssness Among Veterans in the U.S." is a 35-page, Nov. 1991 report and set of recommendations from the Natl. Coalition for the Homeless, 1621 Conn. Ave. NW, Wash., OC 20009, 200,/

265-2371. $5. Also available from them for $5; "Mourning in America: Health Problems, Mor­tality and Homelessness," 35 pp., Dec.1991. Safety Network is their newsletter. '· ., "Go Direc:Uy to Jail: A Re­port Analyzing Local Anti.­Homeless Ordinances" is a 88-page Dec., 1991 report by the Natl. Law Ctr. on Homelessness and Poverty, 918 F St. NW-#412, Wash., DC 20004, 202/638-2535. $12.

� CCNV Homelessn� Mate­rials: The Community for Crea­tive Non-Violence (425 Second St. NW, Wash., DC 2CXXJ1, 'lfJ2/ 393-1909) has available drree 30-or 60-second video Public Ser­vice Announcements featuring Valerie Harper or Edwin James Olmos ($13); "Housing and Homelessness: A Teaching Guide" ($3), featuring three les­son plans for grades 4-8, five les­son plans for grades 8-12, teooh­ers' background materials, a poverty quiz, glossazy and re­source list; and "Managing the Media: A Guide for Activists" ($5).

� Homeless Pamphlets, Prop­erties: The federal Interagency Council on' the Homeless (451 Seventh St. SW #7274, Wash., DC 20410, 202/708-1480) has (likely free) pamphlets available on various topics having to do with assisting the homeless. Also available (and free) is the 62-page Executive Summary of their 1990 Annual Report; a special edition of their newsletter, Council Com­munique, covering question& and aJlliWeIS on obtaining federal properties for housing the home­less; and (this one $3 from HUD USER;. PO Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20850) "Initiatives for the Homeless: A Collection of Pro­gram Descriptions" ahout more than 70 state, local and private homelessness assistance initia­tives.

Housing e "A Place to Call Home: The Low Income Housing Crisis

Continues," published by the Center on Budget and Policy Pri­orities and lhe Low Income Hous­ing Information Service, is availa­ble (no price listed) from the CBPP, TI7 N. Capitol St NE

#705, Wash., DC 20002, 202/ 408-1080. Dec., 1991, 83 pp. The Center e.lso has, for $40/ year, a one-year subscription to all its excellent poverty and in­come reports; budget analyses; and reports on labor issues (em­ployment, unemployment insu­rance, minimum wage), hunger and welfare issues (including food and nutrition programs), and low-income housing issues. For $25 you can get a one-year sub that includes only poverty and income reports, budgets analyses, and any one of the three last-mentione.d topics.

� "Priority Housing Prob­lems and 'Worst Case' Needs In 1989," a 49-page June, 1991 Report to Congress by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, is a:vailable ($3) from HUD USER, PO Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20850.

'11 "Desperately Needed Now: An SRO Housing Revolulion" is a just-released 74-page study

· and set of recommendations for NYC by long-time advocate planner Walter '!habit $5 from ANHD, 236 W. 27 St, 2nd fir., NYC, NY 10001.

• DisplacementFarum is a pe­rioruc newsletter from the Na­tional Anti-Displacement Project of the Low Income Housing In­formation Service, 1012 14th St NW it1200, Wash., OC 20005, 202/662-1530. LIHIS also pub­lishes a monthly infonnational Roundup, the CHAS [Comprehe­sive Housing Ajfordabifily Strat­egy] Monitor, as well as occa­sional Special Memoranda. Subscription infonnation, as well as information about their a.ffili� ate, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (a member­ship organization dedicated to advocacy, organizing and e.duca­tion on the low-income housing issue), is available at the a.hove address.

� H.O.M.E. Network: A net­work/information sav:ice on the new HOME Program of the Natl. Affordable Housing Act has been established by the Natl. Comm. Dev. Assn., 522 21 St. NW -#120, Wash., DC 20006, 202/ 293-7587. Unfortunately, it's a steep $150/year (24 issues).

0 Homing Courses: The Na­tional Housing Inst. has prepared a Housing Courses Catalogue of

20 course outlines (course de­scriptions, reading lists) from un­dergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, urban planning, en­vironmental studies, history, po­litical science, law and other dis­ciplines dealing with the major politieltl, economic and social as­pects of housing issues. $10 from NHI, 439 Main St., Orange, NJ 07050, 201/678-3110.

"' "Your Family's Rights Un­der Ole New Fair Housing Law" is available ($5.75) from Children's Defense Fund, 122 C St. NW, Wash., DC 20001, 202-628-8787.

"' "Out of Reach: Why Every­day People Can't Find Afforda­ble Housing," by Cushing Dol­beare (2nd ed., Sept., 1991), is a detailed state-by-state analysis of the affordability gap between family incomes and the housing supply. $20 from the Low In­come Housing Infonnation Ser­vice, 1012 14 St NW, Wash., DC 20005, 202/662-1530.

,. Shelurforce is the bi-monthly magazine of the Natl. Housing Inst. $18/year, 439 Main St., Orange, NJ 07050, 201/678-3110. Recent issues include arti­cles on the National Affordable Housing Act, community rein­vestment, the low-income hous­ing tax credit, the militruy's pub­lic housing program, and housing policies in Canada and Eastern Europe.

,. Housing Policy &bate is a new quarterly journal (apparently free) published by the Office of Hous.ing Policy Research, Feder­al Natl. Mortgage Assn., 3900 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Wash., OC 20016-2899. Vol. 2, Issue 2 con­tains the papers presented at their 1990 conference, "Preserving Low-Income Housing Opportuni­ties: Principles fur a 1990s Hous­ing Strategy." Vol 2, Issue 3 con­tains the papers presented at their 1991 conference, "Counting the Homeless: The Methodologies, Policies and Social Significance Behind the Numbers." B�k is­sues likely are available.

c• Holl5ing Mobility Strate• gies: Studies of efforts to achieve racial integration via residential mobility, using Sec. 8 housing certificates, are available (for Cincinnati) from Prof. Paul Fis­cher, Dept. Politics, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045,

708/234-3100 x241 and (for Chi­cago) from Mary Davis, Leader­ship Council for Met Open Communities, 401 S. State St, #860, Chicago, IL 60605, 312/ 341-5678. APRRAC grantee, Citizens Research Education Network (32 E1m St., Hartford, CT 06106, 203/249-1416), is studying and domg advocacy work on this same issue in Hart-­ford. \11 "Indian Housing in the 1990s" is a new 30-page report available (free) from the Natl. Amer. Indian Housing CounciL 900 Second St NE, Wash., DC 20002, 202fl89-1754. o Sil"er Lining, a new publica­tion of the Resolution Trust Cor­poration's Affordable Housing Disposition Program, provides timely information on auctions and other disposition of federal­ly-held properties obtained under the savings and loan bailout. Available (free) from AHDP/ RTIC, 801 17th St. NW, Wash., DC 20006, 202/416-6995. • "AFL-CIO Survey ofUn­ion-Sporu,ored HoW1ing" (co­ops, elderly and handicapped projects, urban homesteading, re­possessed homes) is a new 36-page report, by Frank Parente, ave.ilable·(free) from the AFL/ CIO Dept. of Econ. Research, 815 16 St. NW, Wash., DC 20006, 202/637-5000. • "Fair Housing Opens Doors" is the first of a series of updates on the HUD/Natl. Fair Housing Alliance-sponsored Natl. Fair Housing Outreach Campaign. Available (no price listed) from Kecia Mack, NFHA. 1400 Eye St. NW, Wash., OC 20005, 202/898-1666. <ll Local Housing Conditions Studies: Metropolitan-area stud­ies oflow-income housing condi­tions in Baltimore, Detroit, San Antonio, Chicago, SF-Oakland, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Mem­phis, Cleveland, Buffalo and San Jose are available ($4.50 each) from the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, 777 N. Capitol St NE #705, Wash., DC 20002, 202/408-1080. • "Credit by Color: Mortgage Market Discrimination in Chicagoland" (by Calvin Brad­ford, William Peterman and Qi Sanshi, 50 pp., no price listed) is a research report available from the Chi�o Area Fair Holl8ine:

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Alliance, PO Box 39598, Chica­go, IL 60639-0598, 312/332-5310.

,. The Nall. Assn. of Affordable Housing Lenders (43 Commer­cial Wharf #9, B·oslon, MA 02110, 617 ll42-0532) issues a quarterly newsletter (Directians in Affordable Housing Finance) and other publications.

• Housing Stndtes: The Nation­al Support Ctr. for Low Income Housing (a joint project of the Low Income Housing Inf. Service and the Natl. Housing Law Pi:o­ject) has issued two recent re­ports: "Building on Success: A Report on State Capacity­Building Programs Targeted to Nonprofit Housing Develo�s" (by Catherine Bishop, Aug. 19'Jl) and "A Passage from Poverty: Self-Sufficiency Policies and Fed­eral Housing Programs" (by Da­vid Bryson and Roberta You­mans, July 1991). $20 each ($10 for members/subscribers).

4> Directory of Infurmatlon Re­sources in Housing ond Urban DtntJlopment (171-pages) is available ($25) from HUD USER, Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20850, 800/245-2691. • "Alternatives to Convention­al Public Housing Manage­ment," by William Peterman and Mazy Anne Young, is available (no price listed) from The V oo­rhees Center, Univ. ofillinois, Chicago, Il.. 60680, 312/332-5310. • Tax Credi/6for Low-Income Houring: New Opponunilksjor Developers, Nonprofits and Com-­mnnities under the 1986, 1989 ona 1990 Tax Acts (6th ed. up­date), by Joseph Guggenheim, is available ($53.95 paper, $145 Iou.,eleaf, wi1h three quarterly supplements) from Simon Publi­cations, Box 229, Glen Echo, MD 20812, 301/320-5771.

• Callllog,u qf lnfomudlon Ser­vices and Teclznical Assistance

for the Development of Low­Income Houlng .is available ($10) from The McAuley Inst., 8300 Colesville Rd. #310, Silver Spring, MD 20910. 301/588-8110.

<Jl "A Community-Based Devel­opment Guide to tlle Cranston­Goomlez National Affordable Housing Act," prepared by lhe Local Initiatives Support Corp., is available ($8) from the Natl. Con-

gress for Comm. Econ. Dev., 1875 Conn. Ave. NW #510, Wash., OC 2000J, 2C1l/659-8411.

'!I "Resale Controls: Too.ls ror Preserving Affordability" is an article in the Summer/Fall is­sue of Economu: Deve/cpment & Law Center Report (19.50 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510/548-9400). $4.

� More Than Housing: Life­boala for Women and Chil­dnn, by Boston architect/ planner Joan Forrester Spngue, is a 248-page collection of 50+ designs for new dwelling types for single mothers and their children. $32,95 from Butter­worth Architecture, 800(366-2665.

� Housing Codes: The Natl. Housing Inst, (439 Main SL, Orange, NJ 07050) is seeking examples of cities with good housing code enforcement pro­grams that work well with ten­ant groups, community organi­zations and legal services lawyers.

e Mort: Housing, Mure Fairly, the report of the Twentieth Cen­tiny Fund T&k: Force on Af­fordable Housing; subtitled "Background Paper on the Lim­its of Privatiution," written by Michael Stegman, is available ($9.95) from The Brookings In­stitution, 1775 Mass. Ave. NW, Wash., DC 20036, 202.f/97-6215. Among its major recom­mendations: increasing the shelter allowance in the welfare program to HUD-defined "fair market renbl," and reducing fed­eral housing tax expenditures (in particular, the homeowner deduction) and devoting these increased revenues to affordable housing programs -proposals progressive housing advocates have been advancing for some time but which take on greater weight now lbat a main-line heavy-weight group like the Twentieth Century Fund gets behind them.

� "Second Mortgage Lend­ing: Abusesaad Regulation," by Kalhleen Keest, is a just­released 63-pagereport (no price listed) avail.able from the Natl. Conswner Law Ctr., 11 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108, 617/523-8010.

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• Design Competfflon: ''New Urban Housing" is a design com­petition sponson,d by the Com­munity Design Ctr. of pjttsburgh (470The Landmarks Bldg., Pitts­burgh, PA 15219, 412/391-4144). Registration closes Feb. 14.

..

Poverty/VI elf are � "The States and the Poor: How Budget Decisions in 1991 Affected Low Income People" is an 80-page Dec. 1991 report by the Ctr. on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Ctr. for the Study of States. No price listed. but see fust item in the "Hous­ing" section fur general informa­tion about CBPP publications. The Center held a meeting Jan. 26-27 on Welfare Strategies, at which some 40 local and national advocates discussed whlll was happening in their states reganl­ing cuts in welfare programs and various fight-back strategies. Contact Susan Steinmetz for more infmmation.

<t> Targeting or Universal Strategies?: A good, succinct de­bate on universal vs. targetted onti-poverty strategies between. respectively, Harvanl sociologist Theda Skocpol and Robert Greemrtein, di.rector of the Ctr. on Budget and Policy Priorities. ap­peared in the Summer 1991 i&!ue of The Brookings Review. (The articles are edited versions of their chapters in The Urban Un­derclass, the 1991 Brookings book edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul Petemon.) We'll send you a copy of the exchange if you send us a SASE.

� Ordsitle tire American Dreflln: Chll,d Poverty in America is

available ($21A5) from the Chil­dren's Defense Fund, 122 C St NW, Wash., OC 20001, 202/628-8787.

tat The National Campaign to Abolish Poverty has developed a concrete program to do exactly that Contact Wade Hudson at the

Campaign, 50'J Ellis St, SF, CA 94109, 415m6-7537.

• Southern Anti-Poverty lfls­tory: A history of anti-poverty efforts in the rwal South is under­way at the Duke Univ. Inst of Policy Sciences and Public Af -fairs (4875 Duke Sta., Durham,

NC 27706, 919/684-5027). They are looking to do oral his­tory interviews with activists aruf policy mak.enl who have worked in the region since the 1960&, and welcome suggestions and information about individu­als and the anti-poverty organi­zations they have led. Contact: Kathy Hoke.

• "Children and the Califor­nia State Budget" and "What's Happening to Our Children: A County-by­County Guide" are available (no price listed) from Children Now, 663 13th St., Oakland, CA 94612, 510/763-2444.

• Hunger in America'!: Last August the ever-consistent Heri­tage Foundation issued one of its "Backgrounders," this time auac.king the notion of wide­spread hunger in the US ("the myth of American malnutri­tion," in their phrasing). Their position: that major nutrition­relate.d heal.th problems in America are caused by exces­sive food consumption, not food shortages. FRAC (the Food Re-­search and Action Center), which has done most of the im­portant documentation and pub­licizing of childhood hunger -­and is a PRRAC grantee - has prepared a detailed rebuttal to the Heritage paper. Both availa ­ble (SASE with 98¢ postage) from Lynn Parker, FRAC, 1875 Conn. Ave. NW #540, Wash., DC 20009, 202/986-2200.

Racism • A "Pastoral Letter on Contemporary Racism and Ole Role of the Church" (39 pp.) is available (likely free) from the United Church of Christ Commn. on Race and J1JStice, 700 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115, 206/736-2100.

� OveriostitulionaDzation of Blacks: "Overcommitted," by David Ramm, is an article from the Pall 1989 i&sue of Southern Exposure, showing that bJacks are nearly three times more like­ly lhan whites to be locked up against their will in Southern mental hospitals. We11 send a copy if you send a SASE. Sowh­ern Exposure is at PO Box 531, Durham, NC 27702.

� CommiJment is the newsletter Kane, Deputy Director of the of the Natl. Catholic Conf. for In- state's Criminal Justice Council, terracial Justice "(Jerome Ernst, Ex. 820 French St., 4th fu., Wilming-

Dir.), 3033 Fourth St. N E, Wash., ton, DE 19801, 302/577-3430. DC 20017-1102, 202/529-6480.

0 FederaJ Data SoW'ce: TRAC •• Lost Opporlllnftiss: Th11 Clvll (Transactional Records Ac.cess Righb Ret:ord of the Bush Ad- Clearinghouse) obtains compre-ministration M�Term is a 252- hensive computerized data on the page report of the Citizens day-to-day activities offederal Coirunn. on Civil Rights, 2000 M enforcement agencies (Justice St. "NW #400, Wash., DC 20036, Dept, Nuclear Regulatory 202/659-5565; no price listed. Commn., IRS, Environmental

• Phikulelphia: Neighl>urlwods, Protection Agency) plus data from the Census Bureau, FBI,

Dwision and Conflict in a Postin- Office of Personnel Mgt., federal dustrial City, by Carolyn Adams, courts, FBI. Information on its David Ba.rtelt, Nancy Kleniewski, services from Miranda Maroney,

William Y anoey et al., is a new TRAC, 478 Newhouse II, Syra-book: dealing with trends in in- cuse Univ., SyrllCUse, NY 13244-creased racial, class and neighbor- 2100, 315/443-3563. They also hood conflict. $39.95 from Temple have a DC office at 1730 Rhode Univ. Press, Phila., PA 19122. Island Ave. NW #600, Wash.,

DC 20036-3101, 2fll/872-9575.

• Reusing .A,n.,-ica 's Schoo&, MisceUaneous by Daniel Carlson, is a 68-page .i:, The Alliance for Cultural De- illustrated guide on converting mocracy is a national network of surplus and abandoned school cultural activists working for buildings into centers of commu-grassroots empowerment and dem- nity and economic activity, draw-ocratic participation through cultu- ing on 30 examples from around ral activity. They publish Juuacan: the countty. $14.95 from The Cultural Democracy, a periodical, Preservation Press, Natl. Trust and are organizing a counter- for Hist. Preservation, 1785 quincentennial campaign. ACD, Mass. Ave. NW, Wash., DC PO Box 7591, Minneapolis, MN 20036, 202/673-4058. 55407.

• S&L Bailmd Materlalll: • Latino Affairs Publlcatlons: Some of the best progressive Tile Mauricio Gast6n Inst. for Lati- work being done on the savings no Community Development and and loan bailout comes from The Public Policy (a PRRAC grantee) Financial Democracy Campaign has available a publicarlons list (604 W. Chapel Hill St., Dur-Univ. of Mass., Boston, MA ham, NC 27702, 919/687-4004). 02125-3393.

'' American Labor iii an occa-0 The International Labor sional publication of the Ameri-Rights Education and Research can Labor Education Ceuter Fund (100 Maiyland Ave. NB, (2000 P St. NW #300, Wash., Wasp,, DC 20002, 202/544-7198) has available a summary of its

DC 20036, 202/828-5170). Each :iiisue (ca. 16 pp.) (,)(JVen, and ana-

1991 activities. ly.zes a particular topic of interest "' Asian Pacifies: LEAP (Leader- to rank-and-file labor activists ship Education for Asian Pacifies) and others involved in health and is an advocacy and educational safety issues and union democra-group, founded in 1982. They pub- cy. $995 for six issues. Ii.sh a newsletter (Leap Connec-

<t Creating a City-County-tions) and are in the process of Slate and Federal Crime Pre-setting up a public policy institute. ventioo Strategy: Inquiries are Contact J.D. Hokoyama, their invited from those interested in Exec. D.ir., 3Z/ E. Second St, cteating a model crime preven-#226, LA, CA 90012-4210, 213/

485-1422. tion strategy through both social development and reform of the

,, Drug Problem Solutions: A crimimtl justice S}'litem, with line concept paper offering a holistic item budgets and revenue propo-approach to the drug problem in an sals, leading to a national confer-urban neighborhood ofWilming- ence and advocacy effort Con-ton, DE is available from Jim tact Barry Weisberg, Civic

Co.llsultants, 53 W. Jackson, Brochure from CDF, 122 C St. Suite 1626, Chicago, IL 60604, NW, Wash, DC 20001, 202/628-312/922-8585. 8787. Also from them is CDP

• "Disadvantaged Yoang Men Reports, their monthly newsletter on developments affecting chil-

in Urban Areas: A Summary of dren, youth and families ($27 .95/ the First Year of the Forum on year if prepaid). Public/l>rivate Social Concern" is a 103-page report (no price list- • The annual National Low In-ed) available from the Union Inst. come Housing Conference will Ctr. for Public Policy, 1731 be held in Washington Conn. Ave. NW, Wash., DC March 14-16. Contact: 1012 20009, 202/667-1313. 14 St. NW, #1200, Wash., DC

" "Serving Children and 20005,202/66:i.1530.

Families Effectively: How the 0 A one-day workshop on Past Can HeJp Chart the Fn- community land trusts as an ap-ture" is a just-issued 23-page proach to developing permanent-study by Peter Bdelman (George- ly affordable housing will be town Law Ctr.), and Beryl Radin held March 27, in Rockford, llii-(USCWosh. Public Affairs Ctr.), nois. C.Ontact: the Inst. for Com-wiJh a Commentary by Sidney munity Economics 57 School St., Gardner, former Deputy Asst. Springfield, MA 01105-1331, Sec. at HEW during the early 413/746-8660). 70s. $3 from the Inst for Educa-tional Leadership, 1001 Conn. • The 7th Natl. Conf. on Multi-Ave. NW, Wash., DC 20036- culturallsm. will be held May !,-5541, 202/822-8405. Other pa- 12 in DC. Information from the pen in the same series (spon- International Counseling Ctr., sored by the Education and Hu- 3000 Conn. Ave. NW #138, man Services Consortium, Wash., DC 20008, 202/483-consisting of some two dozen 0700. public policy organizations) cov-er educarion's stake in the Fami- � The Alliance for Cultural ly Support Act of 1988, helping Democracy ll! holding a national policy-makers improve children's conference in Atlanta, services, and structuring intera- IV'1ay 23-25. ACD, PO Box gency partnerships to cowiect 7591, Minneapolis, MN 55407. children and families w:ith com-prehensive services. '- "500 Years of Resistance: "' Young Unwed Fathers/ The Columbus Legacy and the

Mentoring: Public/Private Ven- African--Searching for Truth tures (399 Market St., Phila.., PA and Fighting for the Future," 19106-2178, 215/592-9099) is will be held N ov.13-15, at Ho-working on two initiatives: the ward University. Co.lltact: "500 Young Unwed Fathers Project (a Years," PO Box 53177, Wash. national demonstration in six cit- DC 2000CJ, 202/234-9383 x281. ies), and Adult/Youth Relation-ships, testing the usefulness of mentoring for youth in the juve-

Jobs/ nile justice system. Concept pa-pers and site locations for both Fellowships initiatives are available from Ber-nardine Watson there. 0 The Food Research & Action

Center (FR.AC) seeks a Legal Director/Food Stamp Director (despite the title, non-attorneys

Conferences with an exceptionally strong food stamp and advocacy background

G Strong Children for a will be considered). Resume/ Strong AmerkiJ is the writing sample by March 2 to March 5-7 annual Children's FRAC Food Stamp Director Defe11Se Fund national confer- Search Comm., 1875 Conn. Ave. ence, in Atlanta. C.Onfirmed NW #540, Wash., DC 20009,

202/986-2200. speakers include Jonathan Kozoi Roger Wilkins, Rep. Tom Dow-ney, William Gxay, Sen. Jay e Field Organizer to work with Rockefeller, Coretta Scott King. grassroots organizations against

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plant closings: the Federation for Indu11trial Retention & Renewal (FIRR), 3411 W. Diversey Ave. #10, Chicago, IL 60647, 312/ 252-7676.

-e Three Attorney posilions are open at Broo.k:lyn Legal Services Corp. A: in family law, HNI AIDS, 1111d government benefits. Reswnes to Paul Acinapura. BLS, 80 Jamaica Ave., Broolclyn, NY 11207, 718/345-6200.

<J The Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law (275 Seventh Ave., 6th flr., NYC, NY 10001-6708, 212/633-6967) has an opening for a Staff Attorney in NY (or possibly their DC office). � Yachad (Jewish Comunity Housing Development Coxp., 2025 Eye St. NW #71S, Wash., DC 20006, 202/466-8048) is looking for an initial Executive Director fur ils affordable hous­ing program.

,, The United Way of America (701 N. Fairfax St.. Alexandria, VA 22314, 703/836-7100) is seeking a Sr. AssocJfech. Asst. Mgr. for its Housing Initiatives Program worlcing with local United Ways on affordable hous­ing policies, issues and panner­ships. 19 The new Natl. Community Re­investment Coalition has two job openings: a Deputy Director ($40-43,000) and an Admbrls­trative Asst, ($28,000). Contact Exec. Dir. John Taylor, 1000 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Wash., DC 20007, 202/342-1132.

• Director of Community In­nstment position at the Inst for Community Economics (57 School St., Springfield, MA 01105-1331, 4t3n46-8660): contact Lynn Benander.

• Post-Doctoral Program: The Univ. of Chicago/Northwestern Univ. Training Program on Race,

Urban Poverty and Social Policy

offers four post-<loctoral fellow­ships annually ($24-30,000), nonnally forone yea.r but wilh possible renewal. William Julius Wilson of Univ. Chicago and Re­becca Blank and Christopher Jencks of Northwest.em direct the program. Applications� due March 1, 1992. Contact Helen Goldblatt, Northwestern Univ. Ctr. for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Evanston, IL 60208, 708/491-8725 ox Heidi Melrose, Univ. Chi. Grad. School of Pub­lic Policy Studies, 1155 E. 60 St, Chicago, IL 60637, 312/702-0894.

• Graduate Fellowships: The two universities listed above have a parallel program of graduate fellowships in race, poverty and social policy, with six fellow­ships awarded annually. Stu­dents initially eoroll in the docto­ral program, a t either university, in economics, human develop­ment, public policy, sociology or

oocial policy. Applications (were) due Feb. 1, 1992. For Northwestern applications and information, call 708/491-7265; Univ. of Chi. sociology or eco­nomics. 312(702-8414; Univ. of Chi. public policy studies, 312/ 702-8401.

e, More Post-Docs: The Univ. of Michigan's Research and Training Program on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy

offers one- and two-year post­doctoral fellowships to American minority scholars in all the social sciences. Fellows conduct their own reseacch and participate in a year-long seminar under the di­rection of Professors Sheldon Danziger and Mary CW'OOJ'IID. Application deadline (was) Janu­ary 10, 1992. Contact Program on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy, School of Social Work, 1065 Frieze Building, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285, 313(764-6158.

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