Photo by Sarah Jane Rhee
The Fair Housing Act prohibits organizations receiving HUD funds from "engaging in inherently religious activities."
In Greensboro, officials have interpreted that to mean that residents can't use common areas for Bible study or a voluntary religious service.
What do you think? Is it a violation of residents' freedoms? Or is it ensuring government-owned property isn't used to spread religion?
U.S. housing, confidence data points to recovery - WaPo says we're shaking off this recession and housing numbers prove it.
Looking to divide the pie more fairly - Philadelphia public schools are considering a measure close to my heart: changing the way we fund public schools from simply local property taxes to a "weighted measure" which would consider how much funding children need based on factors like poverty, language, and educational need.
No Internet for Many - Finally, a great article by Danny Fenster of the Chicago Journal. This is one that's from past weeks while I was out, but still incredibly important. Two in five Chicagoans have no meaningful access to the internet, according to a new study.
Wednesday news round up: the church of public housing?
2 Comments
rwoodley said:
Somewhere along the line the idea that church and state are separate morphed into the idea that the state should prevent people from going to church where possible.
Or to look at it another way, because some people receive government funds, the state gets to tell them when and where to practice their religion. Those with more money are free of this meddling.
Either way it doesn't make a lot of sense.
R.A. Stewart said:
Absolutely agree. I'm all for the separation of church and state. I'm also all for governance involving a modicum of common sense.
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