PRRAC-Funded Research Grants & Products

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Search 1999 - 2000 Cumulative PRRAC Grants Files:

• Domestic violence in immigrant households. Clinica Legal Latina
• How the legal system treats drug offenses vs. alcohol-related driving offenses. The Sentencing Project
• Misconduct among border patrol and municipal and non-municipal police. The Data Center
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Models of parent involvement/outreach in four low-income Michigan communities. The Student Advocacy Center
• Challenge to racially discriminatory education systems in Alabama. The American Civil Liberties Union
• Challenge to de facto racial, linguistic and economic segregation in the Hartford school system. John Brittain
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of federal education data used for enforcement of 1964 Civil Rights Act. James McPartland and Nettie E. Letgers
• Research used for litigation supporting continuation of St. Louis' voluntary interdistrict desegregation program. William L. Taylor
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of state-level education data relating to low-income and minority students. The California Budget Project, Alabama Arise, the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center, Voices for Illinois Children & The [Texas] Center for Public Policy Priorities
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Impact of job training and development programs in public housing projects. The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' Community Economic Development Unit
• Policy responses to 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
• Defining "acceptable" minimum wage for developing nations seeking trade preferences in US market, in order to protect wage levels of US workers. Richard Rothstein
• Promoting workers' rights in No. Carolina poultry industry. The Government Accountability Project
• Impact of NAFTA on immigrant women garment workers. La Mujer Obrera
• Investigation of social and economic base of So. Central Los Angeles as basis for providing alternatives to mainstream "Rebuild LA" planning and development proposals. The Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Korean Youth Center & UCLA Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Planning
• Impact of 1988 WARN Act, requiring advance notice of plant closings or mass layoffs. The Sugar Law Center
• Commissioned papers for "From Poverty to Economic Development: Community & Policy Strategies for Latinos in Massachusetts" conference. The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy of the University of Massachusetts--Boston
• Exploitation of minority workers being recruited to work in Midwest meatpacking plants. PrairieFire
• Research on major garment manufacturer for Garment Workers Justice Campaign. Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
• Social and economic impact of Japanese companies in the US on American minorities. The Japan Pacific Resource Network
• Technical work to demonstrate the systematic Census undercount of farmworkers. The California Human Development Corporation
• Research/training program on organizing part-time, contingent workers. The Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE)
• Revising US Dept. of Agriculture civil rights enforcement rules to stem loss of African American-owned farm land throughout the Southeast. Farmers Legal Action Group (FLAG)
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Nuclear contamination of indigenous people's land in the US. The International Indian Treaty Council
• Environmental justice mapping project for A/PI communities in six Bay Area counties. The Asian Pacific Environmental Network
• Environmental impact of semiconductor consortium on surrounding Latino neighborhood in East Austin. PODER People Organized in Defense of Earth & Her Resources)

• Differential incidence of iron deficiency among children living in subsidized vs. unsubsidized housing. Alan Meyers
• Translating technical health risk assessment reports into material usable by community organizers in anti-corporate campaign focusing on air quality. Labor/Community Strategy Center
• Challenging official health risk assessment methodologies for use by community organizers in anti-corporate campaign focussing on air quality issues. Labor/Community Strategy Center
• Identifying patients who have experienced barriers to health care access in violation of California's Indigent Medical Services program. Public Law Center/Orange County Health Organizing & Action Project
• Lack of prenatal care, delivery and related services to pregnant women who are Medicaid recipients or Medicaid-eligible. Tennessee Health Care Campaign
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of federal health data relating to low-income and minority populations. Carol Korenbrot, Ayesha Gil and Dana Hughes
• Reconnaissance of the availability and quality of state-level health data relating to low-income and minority populations. California Budget Project, Alabama Arise, North Carolina Budget & Tax Center, Voices for Illinois Children, The [Texas] Center for Public Policy Priorities
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Structural disadvantages homeless families face due to state administrative procedures when applying for Section 8 housing certificates. Greater Boston Legal Services' Homelessness Unit
• Update of "The Right to Remain Nowhere: A Report on Anti-Homelessness Laws and Litigation in 16 US Cities." The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• Interviews with homeless men in support of ligitation to prevent closing of municipal shelters. The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
• Violation of federal McKinney Act standards requiring that homeless children be given an adequate education. The Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
• State survey of shelter use, users and needs. Anne Shlay
• Discriminatory procedures local housing authorities employ that disadvantage homeless minority families in allocation of Section 8 certificates. The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Documenting historical actions by Allegheny County (PA) Housing Authority, county government, HUD and private sector that established racially segregated housing patterns and markets. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Impact of high growth rates on housing affordability problems of low-income households. The California Coalition for Rural Housing Project
• Maintenance, repair and modernization decision-making procedures and expenditures among NYC public housing projects. Kian Tajbaksh
• Impact of increasing the AFDC housing allowance on housing conditions, overall living conditions and housing discrimination. Mary Ann Burg and Lynne Soine
• Technical assistance handbook to assist in enabling residents of "expiring use" projects to retain their housing in permanently affordable form, under resident control. The Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (Boston)
• Documenting disproportionately higher rates at which low-income minority families have their children taken away due to lack of adequate housing. Greater Boston Legal Services
• Links between availability of housing assistance and unnecessary foster care placements; conditions for fostering cooperative working relationships between child welfare advocates and state and local housing officials. The Children's Defense Fund
• Under-utilization of housing certificates and ways in which landlords with Section 8 certificates opt out of the program in violation of federal law. The Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
• Patterns of discrimination in Kansas City's federally subsidized, privately owned projects. Legal Aid of Western Missouri
• Policy research and analysis re first- and second-year Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy. The HOMES Coalition -- Housing Opportunities through Many Efforts and Services
• Documentation of system of home equity scams and second mortgage fraud involving home improvement companies, mortgage brokers, secondary mortgage companies and large mainstream financial institutions. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association
• Outcome of court eviction proceedings where tenants are and are not represented by counsel. Legal Services for New York City
• Investigation of conditions of "precariously housed women" living in doubled-up or extremely crowded conditions. Diana Pearce
• Challenging conclusions of landlords' study of financial losses suffered when tenants assert defense against eviction actions. Richard LeGates and Allan Heskin
• Evaluation of segregative impact of past city and federal actions on public housing and examination of proposed sites for housing to replace high-rise units being demolished. The New Haven Legal Assistance Association
• Documentation of racial impact of the homeowner tax deduction and development of alternative taxation proposal to foster homeownership among minorities. The National Housing Institute
• Impact of federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit on housing low-income households and people of color. The Seattle Displacement Coalition
• Documentation of HUD/housing authority failure to meet Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights Act standards in replacing demolished public housing units. Project BASIC
• Survey of housing conditions of AFDC recipients living in non-subsidized housing. The Virginia AFDC Housing Survey Task Force
• Documentation of substandard living conditions and repressive/unresponsive management practices in Tucson's Sec. 236 (with Sec. 8 add-ons) and public housing projects. The Southern Arizona People's Law Center
• Survey of Sec. 8 rent certificate holders and participating landlords to maximize metropolian-wide use of certificates. Citizens Research Education Network
• Survey of local government inclusionary programs to determine their effectiveness in providing low-income housing. The California Coalition for Rural Housing Project
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of federal housing data relating to low-income and minority populations. Anne Shlay
• Government actions that produced housing segregation and impact of segregated patterns on school patterns. Florence Roisman ,Michael Daniel and Thomas Henderson
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of state-level housing data relating to low-income and minority populations. The California Budget Project, Alabama Arise, the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center, Voices for Illinois Children & The [Texas] Center for Public Policy Priorities
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Documentation of illegal and abusive behavior of US Border Patrol with respect to both "illegal aliens" and residents of Chicano communities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley border areas. Robert Koulish
• Documentation of patterns of employer discrimination against immigrant minority workers due to Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Identification of pockets of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles County targeted for door-to-door outreach in order to increase rate of naturalization; focus group discussions to discover the psychological and administrative barriers immigrants face when pursuing naturalization. The Southwest Voter Research Institute
• Study of "day labor" practices in California communities. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Needs assessment of the Orange County Vietnamese community, particularly around issues of jobs and health care. The Vietnamese Community of Orange County
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

• Documentation of history and implementation of racially discriminatory transit planning in the Los Angeles region. Labor/Community Strategy Center
• Impact of cumulative voting systems on minorities. Robert Brischetto
• Redefinition of federal poverty line. The Food Research and Action Center
• Impact of state budget cuts on low-income women and women of color. The Women's State-wide Legislative Network of Massachusetts
• Impact of state welfare cuts, in particular General Assistance. The Michigan League for Human Services
• Documentation of working poor eligible to receive various benefits (food stamps, Medicaid, General Assistance, housing assistance) who do not receive such benefits. Marlene Kim and Ken Grossinger
• Development of clearinghouse of information on work and family issues related to unions. The Labor Project for Working Families
• Survey of Los Angeles youth on public policy issues, inter-ethnic tensions, surrounding conditions. AGENDA (Action for Grassroots Empowerment & Neighborhood Development Alternatives)
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of federal income security data relating to low-income and minority populations. Brett Brown and Kristin Moore
• "Reforming and Simplifying New York's Child Support System." The [NY] State Communities Aid Association
• Preparation of handbook summarizing state cuts in General Assistance. The National General Assistance Working Group
• Reconnaissance of availability and quality of state-level data relating to low-income and minority populations. The California Budget Project, Alabama Arise, the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center, Voices for Illinois Children & The [Texas] Center for Public Policy Priorities
• PRRAC Grantee Products and Final Reports

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