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Poverty & Race Journal (January-April 2025)

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Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. Introduction – Transportation Equity This P&R special issue on transportation equity reveals historical continuities and discontinuities in transportation infrastructure policy and action from the early 20th century through today. Collectively, the authors explore how the power of federal transportation investments have … [Read more...] about Poverty & Race Journal (January-April 2025)

Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit

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Link to the complete Toolkit Executive Summary The future of our housing system must be one that works for everyone. To that end, tenants, organizers and advocates are working towards a system of social housing. Social housing is permanently and deeply affordable, permanently removed from the for-profit market, and owned and controlled by public, non-profit, or community … [Read more...] about Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit

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

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By Robert Lindsay, Janelle Taylor, and Philip Tegeler Our federal housing policy continues to rely heavily on the private market and the immense capital at its disposal for the production of low income housing. But among government housing officials and across the broad network of non-profit housing professionals in the U.S., the belief in a “right to housing” is strong, … [Read more...] about 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)

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October 11, 2023 A PRRAC Report. By Janelle Taylor, (J.D. Georgetown Law School 2023), and a Law & Policy Intern at PRRAC in 2022-2023;  Robert Lindsay, (J.D. University of Minnesota Law School 2023), and also a Law & Policy Intern at PRRAC in 2022-2023; and Philip Tegeler (Executive Director of PRRAC). Synopsis: This summary report is an update to our 2015 … [Read more...] about Building Opportunity III: Affirmatively furthering fair housing in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (October 2023)