The great housing and workforce divide: We are hopeful that the COVID crisis leads to a broader national recognition of the home as a place of security, safety, and refuge – basic elements of the right to housing, especially for America’s low- and moderate-income essential workers - and also for families who have suddenly lost their jobs. To reach the goal of a universal right … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 20, 2020): COVID Housing Notes; ESSA and School Integration
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PRRAC Update (March 19, 2020): AFFH and the Pandemic; Progress Continues on Housing Mobility and SOI Protections
What does Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mean now? Low- and moderate-income families are bearing the economic brunt of the social distancing measures that are being implemented to protect society from the coronavirus – and the racialized income and wealth distribution in our society means that these burdens also have a disproportionate racial impact. If there was ever … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 19, 2020): AFFH and the Pandemic; Progress Continues on Housing Mobility and SOI Protections
PRRAC Update (February 13, 2020): Events & Webinars; Resources and Opportunities
Events & Webinars Upcoming Webinar - Proposed AFFH Rule’s Impact on Health Equity: Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Building Healthy Places Network, and featuring PRRAC Deputy Director Megan Haberle, as well as Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Dr. David Williams and Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center’s Cashauna Hill. The speakers will … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 13, 2020): Events & Webinars; Resources and Opportunities
PRRAC Update (January 31, 2020): NCSD Conference; School Integration Advances; New Mapping and Data Tools
SAVE THE DATE – NCSD’s Fifth National Conference on School Integration will be held on March 26-27, in Washington, DC. The conference (the largest cross-sector school integration convening in the nation) provides a space for parents, students, educators, researchers, advocates, activists, policymakers and other supporters to coalesce around a shared commitment to integrated … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 31, 2020): NCSD Conference; School Integration Advances; New Mapping and Data Tools
PRRAC Update (January 16, 2020): New Issue of P&R; More Bad News from HUD; Upcoming Webinar
In the new Poverty & Race: Reflections on the Long Island racial steering expose; STEM and school integration; and California’s progressive housing agenda. See the new issue here. The proposed AFFH rule is even worse than we expected: In contravention of the Fair Housing Act, the proposed rule eliminates any requirements to redress or analyze racial or economic … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 16, 2020): New Issue of P&R; More Bad News from HUD; Upcoming Webinar