Bi-weekly PRRAC Email Update

PRRAC Executive Director national search: With the anticipated departure of PRRAC’s longtime executive director Phil Tegeler, we are seeking a dynamic individual to lead PRRAC into its next act. The ideal candidate is grounded in racial justice policy, understands the role of law, policy, and social movements in advancing structural change, is an innovative thought leader and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (August 22, 2024): PRRAC Executive Director search; new Poverty & Race issue

A bipartisan value: Most Americans support school integration – and this is true across racial, socioeconomic, and partisan divides. A new fact sheet from NCSD summarizes findings from three recent integration polls and offers key takeaways and sample messages to communicate the findings. Funding flexibility for housing vouchers: The Senate HUD appropriations bill for 2025 … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (August 8, 2024): School integration leads in national polls!

“50 years of tenant-based rental assistance”: We were pleased to be a part of this special issue of HUD’s social science journal Cityscape, which takes an in-depth look at multiple aspects of the Housing Choice Voucher program, HUD’s largest housing program. We especially recommend our entry, “Section 8 in the Courts: How Civil Rights Litigation Helped to Shape the Housing … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 25, 2024): Section 8 in the courts

Future housing mobility programs: HUD just released housing mobility planning grants to 25 PHAs, modeled on the services provided in the Community Choice Demonstration. In several of the regions in this grant announcement, families with Housing Choice Vouchers are dramatically concentrated in high poverty neighborhoods, giving some urgency to these planning grants, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 11, 2024): Housing mobility planning grants; Black teachers after Brown; and PRRAC news!

Fairer screening rules for HUD-assisted housing: We submitted comments in support of HUD’s proposed rule to eliminate discriminatory uses of criminal records in screening tenants for admission to HUD-funded housing. Our comments included strong support for the elimination of the long-standing (and illegal) practice of re-screening voucher tenants who move from one public … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 20, 2024): fairer tenant screening; source of income discrimination updates