Civil Rights Task Force on Federal Housing Policy (2009 - 2013)

PRRAC is supporting a loose coalition of national, state, and local organizations that recognizes the impact of federal housing policy on residential segregation patterns, and that stresses the importance of explicit policies to reduce racial and economic segregation and expand access to high opportunity communities for low income families of color. Included here are recent communications with the Department of Housing & Urban Development on specific federal policy issues:

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card (Part I: HUD Housing Programs) (January 2013)

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD: A First Term Report Card (Part II: HUD Enforcement of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Requirement) (Lawyers Committee, National Fair Housing Alliance, and PRRAC, March 2013)

Public Housing Redevelopment

Improving the Choice Neighborhoods Program (May 2013)

An Early Assessment of Off-Site Replacement Housing, Relocation Planning and Housing Mobility Counseling in HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, by Martha Galvez (March 2013)

Promoting Choice and Mobility in the Rental Assistance Demonstration (April 2012)

Housing Justice Network comments on HUD’s public housing demolition/disposition rulemaking (February 2011)

Fair housing comments on Choice Neighborhoods funding notice (January 2011)

"Fact sheet on the Choice Neighborhoods bill" (September 2010)

"Civil Rights Letter on PETRA" (September 2010)

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Section 8 Voucher Reform

Expanding Choice: Practical Strategies for Building a Successful Housing Mobility Program (February 2013)

Coalition letter on second term rulemaking priorities (February 2013)

Comments on proposed HUD rule streamlining Section 8 portability (May 2012)

Coalition letter on racial impacts of 2012 housing bill (January 2012)

HUD unveils new partnership to get school performance data to Section 8 voucher parents (December 2011)

Housing coalition letter on delayed HUD regulations (September 2011)

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Sustainable Communities Initiative

Transportation Equity Caucus comments on FTA New Starts Guidance (March 2013)

Comments on Federal Transit Administration proposed rule on transit oriented development (March 2012)

PRRAC comments on EPA draft report, “Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities” (March 2012)

The "Housing + Transportation Index" and Fair Housing (July 2010)

Building Sustainable, Inclusive Communities, by David Rusk (May 2010)

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Regulation

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing for Washington DC

Followup letter to Westchester Monitor (November 2011)

Using government-owned foreclosed properties to promote fair housing (September 2011)

Housing coalition letter on delayed HUD regulations (September 2011)

Final comments on the anticipated AFFH regulation (October 2010)

Fair Housing Comments on HUD's Strategic Plan (January, 2010)

Resources for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

The Westchester County Case

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Civil Rights and Housing Finance Reform

Government-owned foreclosures as a fair housing opportunity (March 2012)

Affirmatively furthering fair housing in the disposition of REO properties (September 2011)

A Civil Rights Response to “Reforming America’s Housing Finance Market” (August 2011)

“Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Secondary Mortgage Market Reform: Making the Connection” (July 2011)

Civil Rights Letter on GSE Reform (December 2010)

Civil Rights Coalition Statement of Principles for Secondary Market Reform (December 2010)

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit

“Continuation and Expansion of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit” (May 2013)

Creating Balance in the Locations of LIHTC Developments: The Role of Qualified Allocation Plans, by Jill Khadduri (February 2013)

Letter to Treasury Department urging release of Title VI regulations for LIHTC program (June 2012)

Letter to Treasury Department urging release of Title VIII guidance and regulations for LIHTC program (May 2012)

Opportunity and Location in Federally Subsidized Housing Programs: A New Look at HUD’s Site & Neighborhood Standard As Applied to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (October 2011)

Comments on the "Compliance Harmonization" Process (August 2011)

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Other HUD Programs

Increasing Housing Choices: How Can the MTW Program Evolve to Achieve its Statutory Mandate? (March 2013)

Fair Housing Task Force - 2nd Term Obama Administration Priorities (March 2013)

Briefs in Magner v. Gallagher (U.S. Supreme Court 2012)

Letter seeking release of harassment in housing rule (May 2012)

Coalition letter to HUD on stalled regulations (May 2012)

Letter from Massachusetts Law Reform Institute on tenant selection and waitlist practices (April 2012)

New MTW notice invites applicants to expand housing mobility and choice (February 2012)

PRRAC comments on proposed HOME regulations (February 2012)

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities comments on proposed HOME regulations (February 2012)

Comments on proposed HUD’s proposed “disparate impact rule” (Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, et al, January 2012)

Comments on Disparate Impact Regulation by other groups (January 2012)

Comments on HUD EJ Strategy from Public Advocates et al (Title VI principles) (November, 2011)

The Spatial Concentration of Subsidized Housing, by Rosalind Kotz (Phd dissertation, Fall 2011 – for more information contact Dr. Kotz at kotzr@nycap.rr.com)

Fair Housing Comments on HUD EJ Strategy (November, 2011)

Comments on HUD EJ Strategy from Empire Justice Center (lead poisoning) (November, 2011)

Expanding the Safe and Healthy Homes Partnership (October 2011)

Coalition letter on stalled HUD regulations (Sept. 2011)

Fair Housing Comments on Proposed Housing Trust Fund Regulations (December 2010)

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing in HUD’s Affordable Housing Programs (December 22, 2009)

Earlier Policy Analysis and Advocacy

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Featured Articles

Quantifying Access to Opportunity?

PRRAC's Analysis of the National Low Income Housing Coalition's "Out of Reach 2013" report (March 2013)

Readings on Racial Segregation and the Foreclosure Crisis

PRRAC’s Analysis of the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s “Out of Reach 2013” report (March 2013)

Opportunity and Location in Federally Subsidized Housing Programs: A New Look at HUD’s Site & Neighborhood Standard As Applied to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (October 2011)

The "Housing + Transportation Index" and Fair Housing (July 2010)

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing in HUD’s Affordable Housing Programs (December 22, 2009)

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