PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
by
January 31, 2012
Dear House Committee on Financial Services Member:
As the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity prepares to mark up the Affordable Housing and Self-Sufficiency Improvement Act on February 7, the undersigned groups urge you not to cosponsor this legislation until two particularly troublesome provisions are either sufficiently improved or are removed from the bill.
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More
