PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Kierstan Marek, Inside Philanthropy
Low-income families continue to face high hurdles when it comes to housing. Areas of concentrated poverty have surged in recent years, and families can’t easily transition out of tough neighborhoods into better ones. But one group of thinkers wants to get Pay for Success working on housing mobility in a big way.
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
