"The Mobility Agenda" Issues Report on Employment and Housing Mobility

Legislative & Policy Initiatives

Banning sexual orientation/gender identity bias in fed-assisted housing

How can it be that the federal government stands idly by while members of the LGBT community are discriminated against in the housing that the federal government itself has funded or otherwise assisted?

Section 8 Access to Opportunity

Racially segregated, high poverty neighborhoods are a continuing reality in many American cities. Congress has an opportunity to to reinvigorate two of the program’s original goals of housing choice and deconcentration of poverty.

Fair and Prompt Coop Disclosure Law

In a city with more than 300,000 cooperative apartment units, fair housing laws will never be effective so long as the coop admissions process is ruled by secrecy.