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?
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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
PRRAC Update (May 2, 2014): Housingmobility.org
Growing the field of housing mobility: We are pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative website, www.housingmobility.org, which includes video, audio and photos of families participating in regional housing mobility programs from across the country and a resource library with the latest social science research, legal advocacy, best practices, and policy analysis in … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 2, 2014): Housingmobility.org
PRRAC Update (April 17, 2014): “The suburban promise of Brown”
Upcoming Events "The Suburban Promise of Brown: Addressing Challenges to Sustaining Racially Diverse Schools and Communities": A major symposium at Teachers College, Columbia University, on Friday, May 2, will look at the relation between housing and school policy in suburban communities, and how stable economic and racial diversity can be maintained. Space is still … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 17, 2014): “The suburban promise of Brown”
