April 10, 2023 Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.1 (Jan - March 2023) Tara Raghuveer and John Washington Housing as the Infrastructure of Racial Capitalism Today’s housing market is a catastrophic failure, shaped by the relentless prioritization of those who profit from our basic need for a home. Millions of … [Read more...] about The Case for the Tenant Union (Jan – Mar 2023 P&R Issue)
Racial Capitalism in the City of Brotherly Love (Jan – Mar 2023 P&R Issue)
April 10, 2023 Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.1 (Jan - March 2023) Prentiss Dantzler and Akira Drake Rodriguez Nobody lives in the old house now, but a man comes each winter out of the North and collects his high rents. (Du Bois, 1903: p. 95) Introduction It’s a peculiar feeling to study something so … [Read more...] about Racial Capitalism in the City of Brotherly Love (Jan – Mar 2023 P&R Issue)
Racial capitalism, tenant power, and social housing (Jan – Mar 2023 P&R Issue)
April 10, 2023 Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.1 (Jan - March 2023) Jamila Michener Racial capitalism. Social housing. These terms are widely used, but thinly understood. They are easily abstracted and readily made fodder for theoretical discussion detached from lived realities. This issue brings … [Read more...] about Racial capitalism, tenant power, and social housing (Jan – Mar 2023 P&R Issue)
Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) By Peter Piazza and James Noonan When he signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act into law in January 2002, President George W. Bush perhaps knew that the new federally-mandated testing requirements would not be popular. In the auditorium of an Ohio high … [Read more...] about Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Adria Crutchfield, Ann Lott, and Valerie Rosenberg Housing mobility programs provide support and information that fundamentally increase choice and self-determination for voucher holders. This is a benefit in and of itself, but we know, too, that such choice … [Read more...] about Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
