Six regional and state housing advocates discuss the connections between uprisings over racial injustice, the pandemic, and the need for housing security. Read more...
Racial Equity, Housing, and COVID: A Roundtable
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Five months since the start of this pandemic, the GIS community across the world is still continuing to develop new innovative mapping solutions to help with local responses. Read more... “There has to be a middle ground where communications are appropriately reviewed without being stalled or written in boring jargon that would be completely unintelligible to the average citizen.” Read more... As coronavirus cases disproportionately impact communities of color, several local and state officials have declared racism a public health crisis. Read more... City Water, Light & Power is on path for constructing the world’s largest research and development pilot for a new carbon capture system. Read more... Housing inequality and segregation was the norm in the 20th century, even if the Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to erase racial discrimination. Read more... Over the past three years, Springfield’s Police Community Review Commission has considered a single case. But there are differing thoughts on why the board has such a light caseload and if change is needed. Read more... Illinois worker must make $21.30 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment, more than that in collar counties. Read more... One of the more pernicious forms of racial inequality in this country is the wealth gap between white and Black Americans. Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker, and worsening. Read more... Springfield School District 186 faces challenges familiar to many urban school districts. Academic achievement at district high schools lags behind state averages. Parents are voting with their feet as they choose to live outside the district or enroll kids in... Read more...
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