Our collective responsibility: The nationwide demonstrations against police brutality are also a call to each of us to consider the ways we need to step up and respond in our own work and community. Read our Board Chair Olati Johnson's statement on the crisis here. Opportunity landlords: Our latest report on best practices for housing mobility programs is out - Recruiting … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 1, 2020): Our Collective Responsibility; Recruiting the “Opportunity Landlord”; Housing and Education
PRRAC Update
PRRAC Update (May 7, 2020): Future School Policy; Virtual Keynote
State school integration legislation: Originally developed for the National Coalition on School Diversity’s postponed national conference, Model State School Integration Policies provides concrete legislative language for advocates seeking to address the growing economic and racial divides in our nation’s schools. We can do better in the 2020s! Housing mobility on Long … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 7, 2020): Future School Policy; Virtual Keynote
PRRAC Update (April 20, 2020): COVID Housing Notes; ESSA and School Integration
The great housing and workforce divide: We are hopeful that the COVID crisis leads to a broader national recognition of the home as a place of security, safety, and refuge – basic elements of the right to housing, especially for America’s low- and moderate-income essential workers - and also for families who have suddenly lost their jobs. To reach the goal of a universal right … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 20, 2020): COVID Housing Notes; ESSA and School Integration
PRRAC Update (March 19, 2020): AFFH and the Pandemic; Progress Continues on Housing Mobility and SOI Protections
What does Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mean now? Low- and moderate-income families are bearing the economic brunt of the social distancing measures that are being implemented to protect society from the coronavirus – and the racialized income and wealth distribution in our society means that these burdens also have a disproportionate racial impact. If there was ever … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 19, 2020): AFFH and the Pandemic; Progress Continues on Housing Mobility and SOI Protections
PRRAC Update (February 13, 2020): Events & Webinars; Resources and Opportunities
Events & Webinars Upcoming Webinar - Proposed AFFH Rule’s Impact on Health Equity: Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Building Healthy Places Network, and featuring PRRAC Deputy Director Megan Haberle, as well as Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Dr. David Williams and Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center’s Cashauna Hill. The speakers will … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 13, 2020): Events & Webinars; Resources and Opportunities
