The movement to shift more of our housing resources out of the private for-profit market and into the community-controlled social housing sector has gained momentum in recent years, with growing housing insecurity, unsustainable rent burdens, expanding homelessness, and gentrification pressures in many American cities. PRRAC continues to support the expansion of the social housing sector, as part of the recognition of the broader right to housing. We are a proud member of the Alliance for Housing Justice, one of the leading collaboratives in the national social housing space. Their new video “Social Housing: Addressing America’s Housing Crisis | AHJ” explains the housing model’s basic tenets and how it may address the country’s ongoing housing crisis.
PRRAC Publications
- Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit
- Social Housing Goals in State Housing Allocation Plans — A 50-State Survey (December 2023)
- What can the Treasury Department do to expand public and community ownership of rental housing? (December 2023)
- What Can HUD Do to Expand Public and Community Ownership of Rental Housing? (PRRAC, April 2021)
- Public or Community Control of Rental Housing Policy Brief No. 2: Using Eminent Domain to Acquire Private Rental Housing – Recent Examples (PRRAC, October 2020)
- A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda (Edited by Rachel Bratt, Michael Stone, & Chester Hartman, February 2006)
Recent Advocacy
- Comments on proposed rule “Reducing Barriers to HUD-Assisted Housing” (June 2024)
- Social Housing Goals in the LIHTC Program (August 2023)
- AHJ 2023 AFFH Comment Letter (April 2023)
- Supporting social housing and tenant protections in the 2024 budget (AHJ, October 2022)
- Supporting the Housing Choice Voucher Tenant Engagement and Organizing in the President’s 2023 Budget (PRRAC & NHLP, December 2021)
- Supporting the California Social Housing Act of 2021, A.B. 387 (PRRAC et al, September 2021)
Related Materials and Alliance for Housing Justice Partners
- Public Housing: A Central Pillar of Social Housing (March 2024)
- California Legislature Assembly Bill 309, “Social housing,” Introduced January 26, 2023.
- “Social Housing for All,” The Center for Popular Democracy, March 2022
- Peter Sarbonis, The Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts (Nonprofit Quarterly, September 2021).
- “Social Housing Is Becoming a Mainstream Policy Goal in the US,” Galen Herz, Jacobin, February 21, 2021.
- “Social Housing in the U.S.,” Community Service Society of New York, February 18, 2020.
- “Why America Needs More Social Housing,” Peter Dreier, The American Prospect, April 16, 2018, https://prospect.org/infrastructure/america-needs-social-housing/
- “Social Housing in the United States,” People’s Policy Project, April 2018
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