PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Amy DeHuff, Brooklyn Quarterly
Forty-seven years after the Fair Housing Act’s passage, the federal government is taking measures to promote integration nationwide. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will soon issue its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule requiring municipalities to routinely look at their data, own up to racial/ethnic inequities in their communities, and take corrective action.
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
