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PRRAC’s fair housing work encompasses implementation of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mandate, as well as research and advocacy to expand opportunity in federal housing programs at HUD, the Treasury Department, and state housing finance agencies. We also provide technical assistance to local housing agencies and advocates on AFFH, housing mobility, and local reform of the Housing Choice Voucher program.

 

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A Guide to Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs): How State and Local Housing Agencies Can Expand Opportunity for Families in All Metro Areas (CBPP-PRRAC, May 2018)

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A PRRAC and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Research Publication. Excerpt: "State and local housing agencies have important new tools to help families with housing vouchers move to high-opportunity neighborhoods with low crime and strong schools, which tend to have higher rents. A November 2016 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule expands use … [Read more...] about A Guide to Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs): How State and Local Housing Agencies Can Expand Opportunity for Families in All Metro Areas (CBPP-PRRAC, May 2018)

Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act

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   On April 18, 2018, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council hosted a symposium on "Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 years of the Fair Housing Act” at the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation in Alabama. Panelists spoke on the intersection of economic justice and racial segregation in Selma and the rest of the country. Select Video Excerpts … [Read more...] about Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act

“Honoring the Promise” by Shaun Donovan (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)

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By Shaun Donovan (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The Kerner Commission report was a remarkable leap forward in at least three ways. First, most importantly, it represented our government stating the unvarnished truth about race relations in our country. In response to three simple questions from President Johnson—What happened? Why did it happen? What … [Read more...] about “Honoring the Promise” by Shaun Donovan (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)

“A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)

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By Sherrilyn Ifill (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) People think: everybody has a race, and so everybody knows about race. But civil rights is actually an incredibly complex discipline. To do this work, certainly to do this work as a litigator, requires that you understand history, that you understand sociology, that you understand economics, that you … [Read more...] about “A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)

“Reflections on Kerner at 50: Introduction” by Stephen Menendian & Richard Rothstein (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)

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By Stephen Menendian & Richard Rothstein (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Fifty years ago the nation confronted a historical choice, but did not act. In 1968 a special commission— established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate why uprisings broke out in more than 100 cities the previous year—warned that America was hurtling down a destructive … [Read more...] about “Reflections on Kerner at 50: Introduction” by Stephen Menendian & Richard Rothstein (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)