A PRRAC and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Research report. By Alicia Mazzara (CBPP) and Brian Knudsen (PRRAC). The Housing Choice Voucher Program, the nation’s largest federal rental assistance program, assists over 5 million people in 2.2 million low-income households. Housing Choice Vouchers help these families afford decent, stable housing, avoid … [Read more...] about Where Families With Children Use Housing Vouchers
Front Page Feature
Field Highlight: Housing Mobility in Richmond with HOME of Virginia, Inc
In August 2018, representatives from PRRAC journeyed to Richmond to sit down with Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc's (HOME) housing mobility specialists Brandi Payne and Toni Jackson, landlord liaison Valerie Barracato, as well as a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holder. We discussed HOME's mobility program, housing mobility in Richmond, as well as … [Read more...] about Field Highlight: Housing Mobility in Richmond with HOME of Virginia, Inc
The 7th National Conference on Housing Mobility
Annotated Agenda See Photo Slideshow On October 16-17, 2018, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), MobilityWorks, and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted the 7th National Housing Mobility Conference. People from across the country, including public housing authority officials, researchers, and nonprofit leaders gathered to … [Read more...] about The 7th National Conference on Housing Mobility
OCA v. Carson and Small-Area Fair Market Rents
In fall 2017, PRRAC joined other civil rights organizations (NAACP LDF, Relman Dane and Colfax, Lawyers' Committee, and Public Citizen) in filing an Administrative Procedure Act suit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) challenging its decision to suspend a 2016 rule change that would have helped low-income families with Housing Choice Vouchers move to … [Read more...] about OCA v. Carson and Small-Area Fair Market Rents
