PRRAC in the News

By Jake Blumgart, American Prospect For Lorraine Washington, a housing choice voucher, colloquially known as Section 8, represents escape and opportunity. Before her recent move enabled by the subsidy, she lived in the Blumberg Apartments, a public housing complex in one of the most impoverished corners of Philadelphia. Then the Philadelphia Housing Authority slated her … [Read more...] about Tickets Out of Poverty? Housing Voucher Recipients Can Move to Better Neighborhoods Only if States and Localities Break Down Suburban Barriers (American Prospect)

By Rachel M. Cohen, American Prospect Alex Cruz-Guzman, who came to the United States from Mexico as a teenager, lives in a poor, minority neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. Determined to provide his five children with a quality education, he and his wife were able to send their two oldest daughters—who are now in college—to desegregated St. Paul schools. But it’s become … [Read more...] about School Desegregation Lawsuit Threatens Charters (American Prospect)

By Spencer Wells, Nonprofit Quarterly New Orleans’s Times-Picayune reports on a new study showing that housing choice voucher tenants, displaced from New Orleans public housing developments, are ending up clustered in surrounding neighborhoods. “The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, a housing advocacy group, released a report on [January 21st, 2016] that said … [Read more...] about Housing Vouchers and Poverty Concentration in New Orleans (Nonprofit Quarterly)

By Doug Donovan, Baltimore Sun Danielle Hill has a secret, one she shares with dozens of other residents of Baltimore public housing. It goes like this: They don't live in the city. Instead, they live in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties, in houses purchased by the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. Thousands more have moved to the counties with … [Read more...] about Housing Policies Still Pin Poor in Baltimore, but Some Escape to Suburbs (Baltimore Sun)

By Steve Smith, Hartford Courant  Why aren't Glastonbury schools more diverse? That wasn't necessarily the question intended to be asked at the Community Conversation on ethnic diversity in schools, hosted by the Glastonbury Martin Luther King Community Initiative on Nov. 16 at the Glastonbury-East Hartford Magnet School, but according to some it was the proverbial elephant … [Read more...] about Discussion On School Diversity Held In Glastonbury (Hartford Courant)