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Supporting Progressive Solutions to Problems of
Racism and Poverty
PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major
civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1988-89. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social
scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based
advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. More about PRRAC
Recent Conferences
Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy:
Howard University School of Law, Friday, November 13, 2009
Building One America: Sept. 17-18, 2009
Watch the ten-minute highlights video
New on PRRAC's Website
Analysis of impediments to fair housing in HUD's affordable housing programs (December, 2009)
New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
by Lora Engdahl (PRRAC and the Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign, October 2009)
"More Than Just Race" by William Julius Wilson (2009)
New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
by Lora Engdahl (PRRAC and the Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign, October 2009)
Chester Hartman and Greg Squires,
"Lessons from Katrina: Structural Racism As a Recipe for Disaster"
in Building Healthy Communities: A Guide to Community Economic Development for Advocates, Lawyers,
and Policymakers, co-edited by Roger Clay and Susan Jones. Reprinted by permission of the American
Bar Association. Copyright 2009.
Connecting Families to Opportunity: a Resource Guide for Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrators (July 2009)
Mandate for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond
(Lexington Books, 2009), Edited by Chester Hartman
Bringing Children Together:
Magnet Schools and Public Housing Redevelopment
(with the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute)
(January 2009)
The Future of Race Conscious Goals in National Housing Policy
by Philip Tegeler, in Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
(M. Turner et al, eds, Urban Institute Press, 2009)
Final Report
and testimony to the
National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (December 2008)
Building Opportunity: Civil Rights Best Practices in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program
(2008), a 50-state survey by PRRAC and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives (2008 Edition)
CERD Health Report: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States (2008)
CERD Housing Report: Residential Segregation and Housing Discrimination in the United States (2008)
Connecting Families to Opportunity:
The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy
by Philip Tegeler in All Things Being Equal:Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time (New Press, 2008)
For PRRAC publications prior to 2008, click here
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