2-3 year delay in AFFH compliance?! HUD is once again seeking to evade its civil rights responsibilities, this time with a multi-year extension of time to all local governments with upcoming deadlines to submit an Assessment of Fair Housing to HUD. An extraordinary and unexpected development. Read the notice here. Stay tuned. OCA v Carson : Over the holidays, we … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 4, 2018): Bad news and good news in the new year
PRRAC Update
PRRAC Update (December 14, 2017): Sign the petition – and run this Saturday!
Sign the petition! on removal of the "anti-busing rider" from the 2018 Appropriations Bill. On Tuesday the National Coalition on School Diversity launched an online petition and call campaign asking Congress to strike Sections 301 and 302 from the House and Senate appropriations bills and we need your help! NCSD and other civil rights advocacy groups sent letters to leaders … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 14, 2017): Sign the petition – and run this Saturday!
PRRAC Update (November 30, 2017): Housing and school integration; anti-busing relic lingers on
Housing and school integration: Executive Director Phil Tegeler and Michael Hilton, our Policy Counsel for education, have collaborated on a chapter on housing and school integration policy, titled "Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation," as part of a forthcoming Joint Center for Housing Studies volume on segregation in the U.S. Our … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 30, 2017): Housing and school integration; anti-busing relic lingers on
PRRAC Update (November 16, 2017): SAFMR Update; DeVos and diversity; NCSD photos!
Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson: The plaintiffs filed their motion for preliminary injunction last week, seeking to reinstate the unlawfully suspended mandatory portion of the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule as soon as possible. PRRAC is working on the case along with NAACP LDF, Relman Dane and Colfax, the Lawyers Committee, and Public Citizen. You can read the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 16, 2017): SAFMR Update; DeVos and diversity; NCSD photos!
PRRAC Special Update (October 23, 2017): Civil rights groups file challenge to suspension of mandatory Small Area FMRs
Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson: PRRAC has joined with several other national civil rights organizations in an important challenge to the Trump Administration's unlawful suspension of the HUD Small Area Fair Market Rent rule. This final rule, adopted in November 2016 after a lengthy rule-making process, would have dramatically expanded housing choices for low income … [Read more...] about PRRAC Special Update (October 23, 2017): Civil rights groups file challenge to suspension of mandatory Small Area FMRs
