More detail on housing mobility funding in the President’s Budget:The President’s ambitious, racial equity-focused 2022 budget proposal to Congress includes two crucial provisions to expand and strengthen our largest low-income housing program – a budget increase in the Housing Choice Voucher program to provide 200,000 new vouchers to low-income families, and a $491 million … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 3, 2021): Latest Developments in Housing Mobility; Discriminatory Home Appraisals
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PRRAC Update (May 20, 2021): Housing Finance and Racial Justice; Strength in Diversity Candidates
Housing finance and racial justice: PRRAC’s new report, Racial Justice in Housing Finance: A Series on New Directions, examines the law and policy assumptions underlying our affordable housing systems and proposes changes. Contributing authors include Megan Haberle, Sophia House, Carolina Reid, Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr., Henry Korman, Max Bebris, Jacob Faber, Elizabeth … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 20, 2021): Housing Finance and Racial Justice; Strength in Diversity Candidates
PRRAC Update (May 6, 2021): Congratulations to PHAs in 9 Metros; May 17 Event; Community Ownership; New Job Listings!
Congratulations to the successful PHAs in the Housing Mobility Demonstration! HUD announced the awards last week to Public Housing Authorities in nine metro areas, including PHAs and local agencies that PRRAC and Mobility Works has worked within Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh! For the PHAs that did not receive awards, we are looking to the 2022 federal … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 6, 2021): Congratulations to PHAs in 9 Metros; May 17 Event; Community Ownership; New Job Listings!
PRRAC Update (April 22, 2021): Housing Mobility in the President’s Budget; NHTF and Fair Housing; Justice in Minneapolis
Justice in Minneapolis: We are thankful that the justice system worked this time, and we hope it brings some sense of closure to George Floyd’s family and community. As so many have pointed out in these last few days, there is much more work to do to. We are still living within the structures and legacies of the justice system described by Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 22, 2021): Housing Mobility in the President’s Budget; NHTF and Fair Housing; Justice in Minneapolis
PRRAC Update (April 5, 2021): Social Housing and HUD
How can HUD better support the social housing sector? Our latest policy brief, “What can HUD do to expand public and community ownership of rental housing?” looks at the ways that existing HUD programs might be adapted to increase funding for the non-profit, public, and community-based housing sector. These programs are all likely to grow under the Biden infrastructure plan, … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 5, 2021): Social Housing and HUD
