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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Poverty & Race Journal (January – April 2024)

Social Housing Goals in State Housing Allocation Plans — A 50-State Survey (December 2023)

Building Opportunity III: Affirmatively furthering fair housing in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (October 2023)

Fair Housing

RAD Choice-Mobility Guidebook: Effective Implementation of Residents’ Choice-Mobility Rights in RAD Conversions: A Best Practices Guide for PHAs and Owners (July 2023)

Supporting Neighborhood Opportunity in Massachusetts: A study of housing mobility program outcomes (June 2023)

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School Diversity

Using CARES Act Flexibility to Address Systemic Educational Inequities & Bring Students Together (NCSD, August 2020)

An Anti-Racist Agenda for State and Local Education Agencies (PRRAC, July 2020)

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Environmental Justice

2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Positions on Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Related Housing Issues (Lily Milwit, Megan Haberle, & Ndidi Anekwe, September 2019)

The Call for Environmental Justice Legislation: An Annotated Bibliography (Jennifer Bisgaier & Jennifer Pollan, July 2018)

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