PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Rebecca Rivas, St. Louis American
One of the original goals of the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program was to racially integrate the country – but instead it’s become a driver of segregation, said Philip Tegeler, president and executive director of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council.
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
