PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Kate Giammarise, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It took Janetta Harrison months of searching before she found a landlord in Pittsburgh’s North Side who would accept her Housing Choice Voucher, commonly called a Section 8 voucher.
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
