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Policy Briefs

Connecting magnet schools and public housing redevelopment: January 2023 update

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Darryn Mumphery and Philip Tegeler  Excerpt: PRRAC’s March 2021 policy brief, Mixed income neighborhoods and integrated schools: Linking HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative with the Department of Education’s Magnet Schools Assistance Program, highlighted an important opportunity for interagency collaboration, encouraging an explicit connection between HUD’s Choice … [Read more...] about Connecting magnet schools and public housing redevelopment: January 2023 update

Expanded protections for families with Housing Choice Vouchers (September 2022)

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Expanded protections for families with Housing Choice Vouchers By Brian Knudsen Read the full brief here With the rapid expansion of source of income discrimination laws across the U.S., PRRAC now estimates that over 57 percent of households using Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) live in states, counties, or local jurisdictions with Source of Income (SOI) … [Read more...] about Expanded protections for families with Housing Choice Vouchers (September 2022)

Expanding Federal Support for Tenant Organizing in Federally Assisted Housing and the HCV Program (PRRAC & NHLP, February 2022)

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A PRRAC & NHLP Policy Brief. Excerpt: "Voucher participants should have a right to organize, just as HUD has provided in the public housing and project-based rental assistance housing programs. HUD should promulgate tenant organizing regulations for the HCV program that allow for the greatest flexibility and have the lowest barriers to organizing. Additionally, HUD … [Read more...] about Expanding Federal Support for Tenant Organizing in Federally Assisted Housing and the HCV Program (PRRAC & NHLP, February 2022)

Genuine Engagement with Housing Choice Voucher Families (Mobility Works & PRRAC, July 2021)

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A Mobility Works & PRRAC Policy Brief. By Darryn Mumphery. Excerpt: "Families with Housing Choice Vouchers can be more than clients for housing mobility programs – they can also be valuable advisors, advocates, and partners. For the past few years, Mobility Works partner organizations have built strong client engagement programs which should be incorporated more broadly … [Read more...] about Genuine Engagement with Housing Choice Voucher Families (Mobility Works & PRRAC, July 2021)

Combatting Source of Income Discrimination in Housing (Philip Tegeler, Antonia Fasanelli, May/June, 2021)

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Policy Brief (May/June 2021). Excerpt: "This article discusses the history of SOI laws; recent momentum within federal, state, and local legislatures to prohibit the practice; and advocacy steps to undertake to pursue SOI bills in your local communities." Read the Policy Brief... … [Read more...] about Combatting Source of Income Discrimination in Housing (Philip Tegeler, Antonia Fasanelli, May/June, 2021)