PRRAC in the News

By Fran Quigley, Jacobin "The Poverty and Race Research Action Council, among other advocates, has outlined how the federal government could change those programs to invest instead in government and nonprofit housing. We should move our housing billions out of the private market and into social housing, built on a foundation of full public-sector ownership and management. In … [Read more...] about We Have to Act Now to Stop the Coming US Eviction Crisis (Jacobin)

By Sentinel News Service “We are honored to receive this grant and to partner with HACLA on this initiative. Through our partnership, we can eliminate jurisdictional boundaries and help families across the County move to higher opportunity areas,” LACDA Executive Director Emilio Salas said. HACLA and the LACDA have a contract with the Poverty & Race Research Action … [Read more...] about HUD Awards Los Angeles City and County $4 Million to Assist 1,950 Families (LA Sentinel)

By Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com If passed, Cleveland would follow in the footsteps of Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo, all of which have some form of source of income laws on their books, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Poverty & Race Research Action Council. In Cuyahoga County, Cleveland Heights, Linndale, South Euclid, University Heights, and Warrensville Heights … [Read more...] about Cleveland Council Members, Following Akron’s Lead, Prepare Legislation to Expand Renter Protections (Cleveland.com)

By Kristian Hernandez, Stateline More than a dozen states have enacted so-called source-of-income laws that bar landlords from rejecting prospective tenants because they plan to use housing aid to pay the rent. Five of the states have acted in the past three years, according to the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, a civil rights and policy organization based in … [Read more...] about Biden Wants to Offer More Housing Vouchers. Many Landlords Won’t Accept Them. (Stateline)

By Leila Atassi, Cleveland.com Central to the Seattle program is the assignment of a “housing navigator” - a kind of case manager - to each voucher recipient to help them research neighborhoods and work with landlords to overcome biases that might have kept them from accepting vouchers in the past. CMHA officials said, at the time, that they were studying the … [Read more...] about Opinion: Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Wins $5-Million Grant for Mobility Program Bound to Change Lives (Cleveland.com)