Link to the pdf of this document Social Housing and Opportunity to Purchase Acts For almost a decade, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) has worked to promote social housing as a necessary solution to the crises of rental housing unaffordability, homelessness, and racialized inequality in the United States. Social housing is housing that is permanently and … [Read more...] about Opportunity to Purchase Acts – a Lawful Strategy for Promoting Social Ownership (May 28, 2026)
Policy Analyses
What You Need to Know about the Trump Administration’s Attack on Affirmative Marketing (June 2025)
Link to the pdf of this document. On June 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (“proposed rule”) in the Federal Register entitled “Rescission of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations.” If finalized, the proposed rule would eliminate the longstanding and historically noncontroversial … [Read more...] about What You Need to Know about the Trump Administration’s Attack on Affirmative Marketing (June 2025)
The 2020 Democratic Candidates’ Positions on School Diversity & Related Educational Equity Issues (Philip Tegeler, Abi Hollinger, & Lily Milwit, November 2019)
Updated November 12, 2019. By Philip Tegeler[1], Abi Hollinger[2], and Lily Milwit[3] The first set of Democratic presidential debates in June brought to the spotlight issues of school diversity and equity, as Senator Kamala Harris asserted the importance of school integration, based on her own experience growing up in Berkeley, California, and criticized Vice President … [Read more...] about The 2020 Democratic Candidates’ Positions on School Diversity & Related Educational Equity Issues (Philip Tegeler, Abi Hollinger, & Lily Milwit, November 2019)
Stacking the Deck: The Regulatory Accountability Act’s Threat to Civil Rights
A bill that would drastically change the way federal agencies design regulations is on its way to a Senate vote. The Trump administration has made clear its intention to “deconstruct the regulatory state.” While they have lost no time in beginning to pick off specific regulations, the broader goal is to implement structural changes to bedrock administrative law and policies. … [Read more...] about Stacking the Deck: The Regulatory Accountability Act’s Threat to Civil Rights
How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable
Many Americans who benefit from federal health, safety, and other regulations nevertheless succumb to the rhetoric and are led to believe that they are victims of government red tape and an overly burdensome bureaucracy. However, despite its negative connotations, the administrative state is often central to the government’s work in protecting and supporting low-income … [Read more...] about How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable
