Housing and schools - can we talk? Most of the recent efforts to link housing and school policy have focused on place-based programs that help to improve student outcomes but are not designed to reduce racial or poverty concentration. Our new policy brief, "Linking housing and school integration policy: what federal, state and local governments can do," updates our 2011 … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 19, 2015): Housing and schools; fair housing and the bank settlements
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PRRAC Update (February 19, 2015): Inching forward
Improving the turnaround schools model: In its announcement of the final rules for the School Improvement Grants program, the Department of Education has indicated that SIG funds can be used to support a magnet school type model, "to promote college and career readiness as well as more diverse and integrated classrooms." This announcement reflects advocacy by PRRAC and the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 19, 2015): Inching forward
PRRAC Update (February 5, 2015): The Housing Trust Fund and Fair Housing; Success Story in CT
The Housing Trust Fund and Fair Housing: The National Housing Trust Fund, authorized by Congress in 2008, has the potential to grow to become the most important source of new low income housing funding at the federal level. Funding was recently authorized for the first time, and HUD has just issued interim program rules. In comments on the proposed program rules in 2010, we … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 5, 2015): The Housing Trust Fund and Fair Housing; Success Story in CT
PRRAC Update (January 22, 2015): Security deposit incentives; LIHTC data release; yesterday’s S.Ct. argument
Encouraging new housing choices: A new PRRAC research report, by Peter Rosenblatt and Jennifer Cossyleon at Loyola University-Chicago looks at the impacts of an innovative security deposit incentive program in Milwaukee County - "Take a Chance on Me": A Review of the Milwaukee County Security Deposit Assistance Program. With assistance from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 22, 2015): Security deposit incentives; LIHTC data release; yesterday’s S.Ct. argument
PRRAC Update (January 8, 2015): Historic choices at the Supreme Court; good news from NY State
Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs: The briefs have been filed in this pivotal Supreme Court case challenging the long-established "disparate impact" liability standard under the Fair Housing Act. PRRAC helped to draft a coalition amicus brief focusing on the harms of segregation, the central importance of segregation in the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 8, 2015): Historic choices at the Supreme Court; good news from NY State