Link to the pdf of this letter. July 3, 2025 Secretary Scott Turner U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20410 RE: [Docket No. FR–6533–P–01] – Rescission of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations Dear Secretary Turner, The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy … [Read more...] about PRRAC AFHM Comment Letter FINAL (July 3, 2025)
Fair Housing & Community Development
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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)
Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
A review of The Sociology of Housing, edited by Brian McCabe and Eva Rosen — Gregory Preston Housing is often only in the public consciousness or policymaker agenda during cyclical busts, as in the foreclosures of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis or the eviction moratoria of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for many low-income homeowners and renters, housing is in a state of … [Read more...] about Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
The arc of opportunity: a decade of research on housing, neighborhoods, and social mobility (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
— Raj Chetty (Keynote address at the 9th National Housing Mobility Conference. September 20, 2023) There's no higher compliment, in my view, for an academic than seeing that your work has had a real impact on people's lives, so this conference is incredibly meaningful to me. And of course, that impact is only possible because of the work you all do, so I'm very grateful for … [Read more...] about The arc of opportunity: a decade of research on housing, neighborhoods, and social mobility (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) David Sciarra Every state constitution affirmatively mandates its legislature to maintain and support a system of elementary and secondary schools open to all children. This means that the states, not local school boards or the federal government, are … [Read more...] about Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
