Research shows that America’s housing crisis spills over into many other national priorities. A lack of stable, affordable housing causes and exacerbates negative outcomes in education, health, economic growth, civil rights, food security, criminal justice and more. Through the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, spearheaded by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), leading organizations from different sectors are working shoulder-to-shoulder to urge Congress to enact an ambitious set of housing policy solutions. If enacted, these proposed solutions could be leveraged across multiple touchpoints in the lives of lower-income children and families.
Please join us on Jan. 21, 3–4:30 p.m. ET, as Mike Koprowski, the National Campaign Director of Opportunity Starts at Home, describes this cross-sector effort and we explore the interconnectedness of housing and education policy. Joining him is Philip Tegeler, President/Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. PRRAC’s mission is to promote research-based advocacy on structural inequality issues, with a specific focus on the causes and consequences of housing and school segregation.
Koprowski brings a unique cross-sector perspective to this work, having served as the chief of transformation and innovation in the Dallas school system, where he led the development and execution of the district’s Public School Choice initiative focused on increasing socioeconomic integration across the district. He also led Opportunity Dallas, an organization that worked with local coalitions to promote greater economic mobility by tackling concentrated poverty and segregation through housing policy.
Tegeler has written extensively on the application of civil rights law to federal housing and education policy. Before coming to PRRAC, Mr. Tegeler worked as a staff attorney and legal director with the Connecticut ACLU, and served on the clinical faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
This webinar is the fifth in a quarterly series of discussions exploring the potential of using housing as a platform and portal for promoting early school success for children in low-income families.