PRRAC Update

Transportation Equity in the new Poverty & Race: Our first issue of 2025, guest-edited by Professor Ariel Bierbaum, involves multiple perspectives on transportation and civil rights, leading with an article by Deborah Archer, adapted from her new book “Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality;” plus a look back at the “freeway revolts” … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 17, 2025): Poverty & Race special issue on transportation equity

We are excited to announce that our new Executive Director, Thomas Silverstein, will be joining us on April 14! Thomas is currently Director for the Fair Housing and Community Development Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, and is a respected national leader in both civil rights and housing justice work. Please join us in welcoming Thomas and see his bio … [Read more...] about PRRAC update (April 3, 2025): Meet our new Executive Director! (and a new policy brief on project-based vouchers)

Does a constitutional crisis start when the President defies an explicit court order? Or when he signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education (which can’t be eliminated by executive order)? Or when he directs the Education Secretary to dismantle the Department without technically “eliminating” it? Or all of the above? PRRAC at the Just Economy … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 20, 2025): the dismantling; upcoming conferences; new CBPP report

AFFH: alive or dead?  Good question. In an “Interim Final Rule” published in the Federal Register this week, the Trump Administration put forth a meaningless new “definition” of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing obligation, and removed all accountability provisions, including the weak system of reporting set up by the Clinton Administration back in 1994. Of course, the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 6, 2025): AFFH redux; NCSD steps up; and new books!

Hyper-overreach by the new Office of Civil Rights at ED: Trying to put teeth into the President’s executive orders on DEI and racial preferences, the Department of Education has released an aggressive and unlawful new “guidance letter” that threatens, under the auspices of Title VI, a cutoff of funds for any school district, state education agency, or university that seeks to … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 20, 2025): more lawless guidance; new social housing toolkit; support school diversity Feb 28!