Housing mobility in the budget? The House Financial Services Committee held an important hearing on Wednesday that focused largely on the administration's 2017 budget proposal to support new housing mobility programs at up to ten public housing authorities. This is a crucial step to making housing choice a reality for low income families with Housing Choice Vouchers. The … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (September 23, 2016): Housing mobility budget hearing, more on AFFH, and new EJ report
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PRRAC Update (September 1, 2016): Racial legacies in Memphis, in the new P&R; and a deeper look at housing and school segregation; plus upcoming webinars
In the new Poverty & Race: Enduring inequality in Memphis; growing economic segregation in schools and the housing-school dynamics that fuel it. See the new issue here. Housing mobility webinar: Join us for a HUD-sponsored webinar on regional housing mobility, Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:00 to 2:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time. Register here. Other … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (September 1, 2016): Racial legacies in Memphis, in the new P&R; and a deeper look at housing and school segregation; plus upcoming webinars
PRRAC Update (August 18, 2016): Announcing “Mobility Works”
Mobility Works : PRRAC is pleased to announce the launch of a new technical assistance project, "Mobility Works," a foundation-supported consortium of housing mobility practitioners, researchers, and policy experts that will assist housing agencies and non-profits seeking to develop comprehensive regional housing mobility programs. The Mobility Works team includes PRRAC , … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (August 18, 2016): Announcing “Mobility Works”
PRRAC Update (August 4, 2016): ESSA, EPA, and AFFH
EPA and AFFH: In comments on EPA's Environmental Justice 2020 Action Agenda, we urged the EPA to include the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision of the Fair Housing Act as a cross-cutting legal obligation and incorporate strategies for alignment with HUD's AFFH planning process. We were joined by the National Housing Law Project, Grounded Solutions, NFHA, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (August 4, 2016): ESSA, EPA, and AFFH
PRRAC Update (July 8, 2016): School integration booklaunch; more Section 8 news; and PRRAC is hiring!
School and Housing Integration: Come to PRRAC's offices for a lunchtime (brownbag) book talk on Thursday, July 21 by Professor Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, whose new book, When the Fences Come Down: Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation, looks at the reciprocal dynamics of housing and school segregation, and how they might be disrupted. To let us … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 8, 2016): School integration booklaunch; more Section 8 news; and PRRAC is hiring!
