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On October 16-17, 2018: The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), MobilityWorks, and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted the 7th National Housing Mobility Conference.  People from across the country, including public housing authority officials, researchers, and nonprofit leaders gathered to better understand how to further housing mobility and find new ways to collaborate on mobility efforts. The conference specifically recognized the pivotal moment in which we live; the housing mobility “movement” is growing and wielding greater influence: Some recent successes and notable occurrences, include bipartisan congressional support for the housing mobility demonstration bill, the growth of the MobilityWorks technical assistance group, and the release of the Opportunity Atlas from Raj Chetty and colleagues, further demonstrating the economic mobility potential of housing mobility…See More

 

April 26, 2018: PRRAC presented Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Resistance: An Evening with Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger…Photo Gallery

 

April 25, 2018: PRRAC and the Lawyers’ Committee hosted an in-depth look at the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act: The Fair Housing Act At 50…Photo Gallery

 

April 18, 2018: PRRAC hosted a symposium on Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act in Selma, Alabama…Photo Gallery

March 22, 2018: PRRAC hosted a symposium on Fair Housing Intersections, exploring the connections between housing policy, transportation, and environmental justice…Photo Gallery

 

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PRRAC Update (January 3, 2019): New analysis of housing choice voucher concentration

January 3, 2019

PRRAC Update (December 13, 2018): SOI discrimination & final 2018 fair housing anniversary reading assignment!

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A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case (The Nation)

Preventing discrimination or burdensome regulation? City, landlords going to court over Section 8 law (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

See How Landlords Pack Section 8 Renters Into Poorer Neighborhoods (CityLab)

Housing vouchers mostly move families into impoverished neighborhoods, even when better apartments exist elsewhere (Washington Post)

Northern Virginia property owners are delighted Amazon HQ2 is moving in. Renters, first-time buyers, and low-income residents aren’t. What might happen if Amazon moves to your city? Will Amazon’s HQ2 be a good neighbor or a nightmare? (The Washington Post)

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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

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