PRRAC in the News

By Kierstan Marek, Inside Philanthropy Where you grow up can have a huge influence on your access to opportunity, and low-income families across the U.S. continue to face high hurdles when it comes to good housing and its related benefits. Concentrated poverty has become an increasing trend in recent years, and low-cost rentals in areas with good school systems are at a … [Read more...] about Money for Mobility: Inside a New Push to Get Poor Families to Better Neighborhoods (Inside Philanthropy)

By Rachel M. Cohen, American Prospect As Congress debates competing revisions of the No Child Left Behind Act over the next several weeks, lawmakers are unlikely to spend much time looking at the growing problem of segregated schools. Despite strong academic and civic benefits associated with integrated schooling, and a unanimous Supreme Court decision which ruled that … [Read more...] about Obama’s Mixed Record on School Integration (American Prospect)

By Annie Clark, Next City My first night in Boston, I was picked up at the South End train station by Judy, a gray-haired woman with deep brown eyes and wire-frame glasses. My new neighborhood was swathed in darkness. But the ivy-covered brick buildings still struck me with awe as we walked down Dartmouth Street, my wheeled suitcase bumping over the brick sidewalk like an … [Read more...] about We Must Not Give in to Economic Segregation (Next City)

By Kierstan Marek, Inside Philanthropy Low-income families continue to face high hurdles when it comes to housing. Areas of concentrated poverty have surged in recent years, and families can't easily transition out of tough neighborhoods into better ones. But one group of thinkers wants to get Pay for Success working on housing mobility in a big way. … [Read more...] about Could Pay for Success Increase Housing Mobility? Some Funders Want to Find Out (Inside Philanthropy)

By Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times If its goal is to move up the ladder, where should a poor family live? Should federal dollars go toward affordable housing within high-poverty neighborhoods, or should subsidies be used to move residents of impoverished communities into more upscale – and more resistant — sections of cities and suburbs with better schools and job … [Read more...] about Where Should a Poor Family Live? (New York Times)