Poverty & Race Research Action Council – Poverty & Race Research Action Council

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More

PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy

Housing and Educational Opportunity

“It’s Time to Listen” PRRAC Documentary Short

Fair Housing

National Fair Housing Alliance et al v. Carson (2018)

OCA v. Carson and Small-Area Fair Market Rents

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School Diversity

Re-Weaving the Social Fabric through Integrated Schools: How Intergroup Contact Prepares Youth to Thrive in a Multiracial Society

Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation

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Environmental Justice

The Call for Environmental Justice Legislation: An Annotated Bibliography

Photo Gallery: Fair Housing Intersections

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