Alliance for Housing Justice On behalf of the Alliance for Housing Justice, we are pleased to submit the following response to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Request for Information. The Alliance for Housing Justice (AHJ) is a collaborative of grassroots organizing, legal, policy and research organizations dedicated to supporting a strong housing justice movement … [Read more...] about Alliance for Housing Justice response to Federal Housing Finance Agency request for input (July 2023)
Advocacy Documents
Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Saba Bireda and Ary Amerikaner Policies that allocate resources to schools and policies that assign children to schools are clearly and deeply interconnected. Brown v. Board of Education’s decree that separate is inherently unequal was premised on the … [Read more...] about Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Some states protect Section 8 renters, but enforcement is elusive
BY: ROBBIE SEQUEIRA, Missouri Independent - JULY 21, 2023 Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have passed source of income anti-discrimination laws that aim to protect families who use federal housing assistance programs. Marcella Roberson is ready to move. She and her 17-year-old son have been looking for a new apartment for four years because, she says, they’ve … [Read more...] about Some states protect Section 8 renters, but enforcement is elusive
Section 8 Tenants Are Using New Laws To Fight Housing Bias
By Jack Karp for Law360 | July 21, 2023 Landlords around the country routinely refuse to rent to tenants who rely on housing vouchers and other forms of financial assistance, so a growing number of low-income tenants and their advocates are using recently passed source-of-income laws to fight the practice. Megan Morse had hoped to use her rental assistance voucher to … [Read more...] about Section 8 Tenants Are Using New Laws To Fight Housing Bias
PRRAC comments on proposed methodology for calculation of Fair Market Rents (July 2023)
July 18, 2023 Regulations Division Office of General Counsel Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 7th Street SW, Room 10276 Washington, DC 20410–0001 Re: Proposed Changes to the Methodology Used for Calculating Fair Market Rents, Docket No. FR-6401-N-01 Dear Colleagues, We are writing to express support for proposed changes to methods used for … [Read more...] about PRRAC comments on proposed methodology for calculation of Fair Market Rents (July 2023)