By Derrick C. Lewis
Much has been written about the former child actor, scholar, community activist, mother, artist, Roberta 'Bobbie' Raymond. Raymond has been described in the media and by those who knew her as a...
On April 25, the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, Chicago Fair Housing Alliance, and Enterprise Community Partners sponsored the Assessment of Fair Housing: Understanding Our History, Strengthening Our Communities conversation at the National Fair Housing...
Joseph Scully, former board member and longtime champion of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, passed away on Oct. 15. During his time as an executive with St. Paul Federal Savings Bank, "St. Paul was the first financial institution to support our center in the early 1970s, and that's...
By Tom Houseman, Oak Park Regional Housing Center Summer Intern
A poverty trap is any aspect of a person’s life that creates and reinforces poverty for themselves and their family, often persisting to the next generation. One of the most commonly identified poverty traps in modern America...
By Mayra Quinonez, Oak Park Regional Housing Center Summer Intern
Residential and educational segregation are closely related. Nowadays, residential areas in the United States are highly segregated by race; thus public schools also tend to be segregated. Meanwhile, considerable evidence...
