PRRAC Update

Budget news! In addition to across the board progress in both the housing and education budgets, the House Appropriations subcommittees on Transportation, and Housing & Urban Development and Related Agencies (T-HUD) and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education approved important items that we have advocated for in the President’s proposed 2022 budget, … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 23, 2021): Exciting 2022 Budget Prospects for Housing Mobility and School Diversity; AFFH in California and in DC

Best practices in housing mobility – client engagement: This new policy brief from Mobility Works and PRRAC highlights successful efforts to organize client advisory groups to work with housing mobility program staff and leadership in Baltimore, Dallas, and Chicago. Housing Trust Fund regulations: We submitted comments last week on the interim rule governing the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (July 8, 2021): Engagement on the Housing Trust Fund Rule; Cross-Government Racial Equity Metrics, Exclusionary Zoning, and the Housing Infrastructure Bill — Plus a New Brief on Housing Mobility Practice

Can real estate agents promote diversity?  We recently partnered with the National Association of Realtors on a project to educate agents about their capacity to promote diverse schools and communities. Our project, “How Real Estate Agents Can (and Should) Promote Diverse Schools,” includes an overview of the benefits of school diversity for real estate professionals, a … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 17, 2021): Real Estate Sales and Schools; U.S. Reengages with UN CERD Committee; AFFH Advances

More detail on housing mobility funding in the President’s Budget:The President’s ambitious, racial equity-focused 2022 budget proposal to Congress includes two crucial provisions to expand and strengthen our largest low-income housing program – a budget increase in the Housing Choice Voucher program to provide 200,000 new vouchers to low-income families, and a $491 million … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 3, 2021): Latest Developments in Housing Mobility; Discriminatory Home Appraisals

Housing finance and racial justice: PRRAC’s new report, Racial Justice in Housing Finance: A Series on New Directions, examines the law and policy assumptions underlying our affordable housing systems and proposes changes. Contributing authors include Megan Haberle, Sophia House, Carolina Reid, Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr., Henry Korman, Max Bebris, Jacob Faber, Elizabeth … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 20, 2021): Housing Finance and Racial Justice; Strength in Diversity Candidates