PRRAC Update

Title I "segregation incentives:" One of our perennial education policy concerns has been the continuing "penalty" built into the Title I school funding formula for districts that take steps to reduce school poverty concentration. Along with calls for a dramatic expansion of Title I funding for high poverty schools, we were pleased to see the issue called out in the education … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 22, 2019): Title I, Section 8, RAD

Record-breaking opposition to Trump Administration proposed "Disparate Impact" rule: The Federal Register notes that 45,488 comments were submitted by last Friday's deadline. This enormous show of opposition to the rollback is thanks in part to the coordinated efforts of groups who raised the alarm, including the coalitions Defend Civil Rights, Alliance for Housing Justice, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 24, 2019): Record-Breaking Opposition to Trump Administration Attack on Fair Housing; New School Integration Research at Upcoming Hill Briefing

Mobility Works at NAHRO: If you are planning to be at the NAHRO conference in San Antonio next week, please visit the Mobility Works booth - Demetria McCain and Nicole Rolfe from the Inclusive Communities Project will be there, and Demetria is also on a workshop panel on housing mobility. Our Mobility Works team has been busy this year, helping PHAs develop housing mobility … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 3, 2019): Housing Mobility at NAHRO; DC AI; Two Weeks Left for Proposed Reg Comments

Climate change, racial equity, and the candidates: We've just released the latest in our series of analyses of civil rights issues in the current presidential campaign, 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates' Positions on Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Related Housing Issues, which looks at the candidates' climate change platforms from a racial equity … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (September 19, 2019): Climate Change, Small Area FMRs, and New Source of Income Protections

In the new Poverty & Race:  Articles by Betsy Julian on the exciting new housing mobility study in Seattle; Justin Steil on disparate impact and anti-subordination theory; Alexandra Curley and Gretchen Weismann on residential preferences of voucher families in Boston; and Kelly Patterson and Robert Silverman on the first year of implementation of the Small Area FMR rule. … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (August 29, 2019): Reviewing the New Chetty Report; Call to Action on Disparate Impact; Lanahan Talk at PRRAC