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August 23, 2024 | Blog Post | Jesse Fairbanks

Too Many People Can’t Rent with Housing Choice Vouchers. Will Switching From Vouchers to Cash Help?

HUD is planning a pilot program to provide direct rental assistance to some who are eligible for housing choice vouchers. Giving cash instead of vouchers to eligible renters is a monumental change that signals trust in participants.

April 26, 2024 | News Clip | Jesse Fairbanks

Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness

By Jesse Fairbanks In late April, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case regarding homelessness. Grants Pass v. Johnson will decide whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, violated the constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness by fining or arresting them…

February 28, 2024 | Blog Post | Cara Brumfield

Economic Justice will Require Reparations and Anti-Racist Public Programs

By the CLASP Income & Work Supports Team The Income & Work Supports team at CLASP works to advance public benefits justice, and Black History Month has us thinking about the history of economic injustice in this country. The economic injustices caused by slavery, segregation,…

event | Jesse Fairbanks

Demystifying Community Engagement: Common Strategies for Engaging Impacted People in Research and Advocacy

2023 SNAP Policy Conference – 10th Conference Anniversary Co-presenters: Jesse Fairbanks (they/them), Policy Analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and Tamika Moore (she/her), Lived Experience Expert and Founding Member of CLASP’s Community Partnership Group will be presenting at the 2023 SNAP…

December 01, 2022 | event | Nia West-Bey

Gen Z and Food Security: A Focus on Our Nation’s Young Adults

On December 1, Nia West-Bey and Jesse Fairbanks spoke at the Congressional Hunger Center’s “Gen Z and Food Security: A Focus on Our Nation’s Young Adults.”

August 15, 2022 | News Clip | Jesse Fairbanks

Taking away a person’s access to housing and food does not promote work

Jesse Fairbanks's wrote an op-ed for The Hill.

June 8, 2022 | Blog Post | Jesse Fairbanks

How White Supremacy Perpetuated Environmental Hazards in Communities of Color

Communities of color are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards. Now, these communities deserve restitution. 

February 28, 2022 | Blog Post | Jesse Fairbanks

Cities Experiment With Restitutive Housing Programs. Do They Advance Reparations?

Two U.S. cities—Santa Monica, CA and Evanston, IL—recently achieved important milestones in their plans to compensate Black residents whose ancestors were directly harmed by racist housing and land use policies.

October 18, 2021 | Blog Post | Jesse Fairbanks

Congress Must Prioritize Investments in Anti-Racist Housing Programs to Truly “Build Back Better”

More members of Congress must raise homeownership disparities and community reinvestment as a priority in the Build Back Better agenda, displaying their support for programs that acknowledge and strive to dismantle racist housing and land use policies or eliminate their lasting, discriminatory effects.

September 24, 2021 | Blog Post | Jesse Fairbanks

Beyond Reducing Rental Debt: ERAP Programs Can Support Right to Counsel

To help tenants stay in their homes, local and federal policymakers must advance effective solutions like right-to-counsel programs, which ERAP funds can support. Such programs help tenants secure representation to fight evictions, a step toward equity that many local governments have shown can reduce housing…

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