PRRAC is hiring! See the announcement for our Law and Policy Fellowship here. Trump's education budget - choice or segregation? Apropos of this week's budget hearings, PRRAC's Kim Hall and Mike Hilton comment in the Philanthropy News Digest's blog. MTW expansion: We submitted comments on the need for transparency and civil rights monitoring in HUD's … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 9, 2017): Trump’s education budget; MTW; Loving!
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PRRAC Update (May 18, 2017): The Color of Law; housing mobility; protecting the administrative state
The Color of Law : Please join us for an important book talk in DC on Thursday, June 8th - the Economic Policy Institute and PRRAC present Richard Rothstein as he discusses his new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) will … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 18, 2017): The Color of Law; housing mobility; protecting the administrative state
PRRAC Update (April 27, 2017): Recommended reading for new HUD staff; and p.s. please call Congress
Time to call your congressperson: Today would be a good day to call your representative and senators to support a reasonable HUD budget - see these talking points from CarsonWatch, and please take a few minutes to make those calls. To contact your members of Congress, call the congressional switchboard toll free at 202-224-3121 or visit the House website and enter your zip … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 27, 2017): Recommended reading for new HUD staff; and p.s. please call Congress
PRRAC Update (April 3, 2017): Our first issue of Poverty & Race in the Trump presidency
Our first issue of Poverty & Race in the Trump presidency : Including a debate on the displacement impacts of NYC "upzoning"...a review of the movie "Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi"...a new program placing law students at a health clinic in Hartford...and HUD's Bryan Greene looks back on his remarkable childhood neighborhood in Queens. Read the Jan-March issue … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 3, 2017): Our first issue of Poverty & Race in the Trump presidency
PRRAC Update (March 16, 2017): Huge cuts at HUD, new LIHTC bill, School Diversity grants
Draconian cuts at HUD : The President's proposed 2018 budget includes unprecedented cuts at HUD - including total elimination of the CDBG, HOME, and Choice Neighborhoods programs - and severe cuts to our national community development infrastructure, including proposed elimination of funding for the Neighborworks technical assistance program, Section 4 capacity building … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 16, 2017): Huge cuts at HUD, new LIHTC bill, School Diversity grants