Long awaited proposed HUD rule on "PHA Consortia" is finally out: The new rule would permit multiple public housing agencies (PHAs) to pool their separate Housing Choice Voucher programs into one contract with HUD, with one "jurisdiction" area, one PHA plan, and so on. The goals of the proposed rule are "to increase administrative efficiencies...and to help ensure maximum … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 11, 2014): Will PHAs come together?
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PRRAC Update (June 26, 2014): New diversity language at Dept of Ed
Revised "diversity priority" proposed for Department of Education competitive grant programs: In 2010, the Department of Education approved a series of funding priorities that could be included as incentives or threshold requirements in Department competitive grant programs - including a priority for promoting racial and ethnic diversity in schools. However, since the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 26, 2014): New diversity language at Dept of Ed
PRRAC Update (June 12, 2014): No housing opportunity in the House?
Attacks on fair housing in the U.S. House of Representatives If you have 20 minutes to spend contacting your Senators' offices this week on three important housing and civil rights issues, it will be time well spent: 1. By just one vote, the House passed an amendment to the HUD appropriations bill (proposed by Rep Aaron Schock, R-IL) that would prohibit rents for Section … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 12, 2014): No housing opportunity in the House?
PRRAC Update (May 29, 2014): Sheryll Cashin in the new Poverty & Race
In the new Poverty & Race: Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin previews her provocative new book on college admissions, "Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America," with responses from Professors Girardeau Spann and Olati Johnson. Plus an article on HUD civil rights efforts in the Carter administration, from PRRAC Policy Counsel Megan Haberle, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 29, 2014): Sheryll Cashin in the new Poverty & Race
PRRAC Update (May 15, 2014): 60 years after Brown, in Hartford and New Haven, CT
Twenty five years of school integration progress in Connecticut: Congratulations to our friends and colleagues in Hartford for their recent celebration of the 25th anniversary of the filing of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, a landmark state constitutional decision in 1996 that has led to development of a successful two-way school integration program in Hartford and surrounding … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 15, 2014): 60 years after Brown, in Hartford and New Haven, CT