Housing and school integration: Executive Director Phil Tegeler and Michael Hilton, our Policy Counsel for education, have collaborated on a chapter on housing and school integration policy, titled "Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation," as part of a forthcoming Joint Center for Housing Studies volume on segregation in the U.S. Our … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 30, 2017): Housing and school integration; anti-busing relic lingers on
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PRRAC Update (November 16, 2017): SAFMR Update; DeVos and diversity; NCSD photos!
Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson: The plaintiffs filed their motion for preliminary injunction last week, seeking to reinstate the unlawfully suspended mandatory portion of the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule as soon as possible. PRRAC is working on the case along with NAACP LDF, Relman Dane and Colfax, the Lawyers Committee, and Public Citizen. You can read the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 16, 2017): SAFMR Update; DeVos and diversity; NCSD photos!
PRRAC Special Update (October 23, 2017): Civil rights groups file challenge to suspension of mandatory Small Area FMRs
Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson: PRRAC has joined with several other national civil rights organizations in an important challenge to the Trump Administration's unlawful suspension of the HUD Small Area Fair Market Rent rule. This final rule, adopted in November 2016 after a lengthy rule-making process, would have dramatically expanded housing choices for low income … [Read more...] about PRRAC Special Update (October 23, 2017): Civil rights groups file challenge to suspension of mandatory Small Area FMRs
PRRAC Update (October 19, 2017): Conference season! New NCSD Research Brief
"Live tweeting" from the NCSD conference : If you do this kind of thing, please join us for real-time discussion at #NCSD2017, or tweet us @diverse_schools. If you want to attend the conference in person, there is still time to register on site - just come to the registration table tonight at the NYU Kimmel Center (20 Washington Square South) at 6:00, or tomorrow morning at … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 19, 2017): Conference season! New NCSD Research Brief
PRRAC Update (October 5, 2017): Civil Rights, Housing, and Climate Change; final settlement in MD LIHTC case
Civil Rights, Housing and Climate change: " The need to prepare for climate change often receives little public attention until a devastating disaster such as a hurricane or wildfire strikes. However, we cannot afford to wait until we are forced to deal with a catastrophe to begin the climate change planning process." Our latest Policy Brief, "Equity Considerations in Climate … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 5, 2017): Civil Rights, Housing, and Climate Change; final settlement in MD LIHTC case