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Poverty & Race Research Action Council

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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 Forum on Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools

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December 3, 2007 ~ 10:00 to 4:00 ~ Baltimore, MD At the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 701 St. Paul Street Overview The forum on “Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools” was held in concert with an innovative regional housing mobility program in Baltimore that is dedicated to helping low income families voluntarily make the … [Read more...] about A Forum on Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools

Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)

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Introduction Forty years ago this year, civil rights activists launched the first large-scale fair housing campaign in the country. By the mid-1960s legally sanctioned segregation was clearly crumbling. Protest in the south had led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, addressing some of the worst racial injustices. But the subtler injustice of the … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)

Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)

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A PRRAC Report (December 2005). By Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler. Read Report Here... Excerpt: "The struggle for open housing begun by the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966 is still very much in progress, in Chicago and across the country. If the aims of the Freedom Movement were overly ambitious, one can only fault its leaders – as one black reader did in a letter to … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)