HAPPY HOLIDAYS! In the new Poverty & Race: Reflections from our Board members and Social Science Advisory Board members on the occasion of PRRAC’s 30th Anniversary – including contributions by Olati Johnson, Justin Steil & Somala Diby, Demetria McCain, Gabriela Sandoval, Paul Ong, Jacob Faber & Max Besbris, Megan Haberle & Philip Tegeler - read the new issue … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 22, 2020): 30th Anniversary Issue; and Another Victory for School Integration
PRRAC Update
PRRAC Update (December 10, 2020): Recommendations for a new AFFH rule + school integration goals for the first 100 days
Restoring and improving the AFFH process: Whether Congress immediately repeals the absurd Trump Administration “AFFH rule” or HUD replaces it through rulemaking, advocates and jurisdictions have learned a lot about how to strengthen AFFH during the original rule’s first two years of implementation (and subsequently, when a number of progressive jurisdictions continued to use … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 10, 2020): Recommendations for a new AFFH rule + school integration goals for the first 100 days
PRRAC Update (November 19, 2020): New P&R; Civil Rights History in Buffalo
In the new Poverty & Race: Abolition applied to housing policy; COVID and evictions; New Deal lessons; “Monopolizing Whiteness”; and social housing history in Liverpool. Read the new issue here (or wait till it arrives in your other mailbox!) Civil rights history - Buffalo: 30 years ago, legal services advocates in upstate New York (joined by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund) … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 19, 2020): New P&R; Civil Rights History in Buffalo
PRRAC Update (October 29, 2020): Progress on Disparate Impact; Housing-Schools History
Carson Disparate Impact Rule Enjoined: In the first of three cases filed to challenge HUD’s undoing of the Fair Housing Act disparate impact standard, a federal district court judge has issued a preliminary injunction which prevents the rule from going into effect (the other pending cases were filed in federal courts in Connecticut and Northern California). A Steady Habit of … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 29, 2020): Progress on Disparate Impact; Housing-Schools History
PRRAC Update (October 22, 2020): Challenging HUD’s Attempt to Dismantle the Fair Housing Act
Disparate impact: Today, PRRAC joined the legal effort to reverse the Trump Administration’s twisted interpretation of the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard. The new HUD rule, which officially goes into effect next week, invents a series of new hurdles for victims of discrimination at the pleading stage as well as adding unprecedented new defenses, making it … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 22, 2020): Challenging HUD’s Attempt to Dismantle the Fair Housing Act
