Fair Housing PRRAC’s fair housing work encompasses implementation of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mandate, as well as research and advocacy to expand opportunity in federal housing programs at HUD, the Treasury Department, and state housing finance agencies. We also provide technical assistance to local housing agencies and advocates on AFFH, housing mobility, … [Read more...] about The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
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Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Jin Hee Lee, Sarah Seo, and Hamida Labi Seven decades have passed since the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in Brown v. Board of Education, that Black people must be treated as equal persons deserving of the full rights of citizenship under the law. A crowning achievement for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Brown was the culmination … [Read more...] about Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Linda R. Tropp and Mohammed Naeem As income and wealth gaps continue to grow, economic segregation in American society has become increasingly widespread (Horowitz, Igelnik, & Arditi, 2020; Reardon, & Bischoff, 2011) and opportunities for economic … [Read more...] about Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research
Title VI: Environmental Justice, Health & Transportation PRRAC has worked to support environmental justice advocacy, with a focus on strong national and local partnership strategies. Harmful and inequitable environmental hazard siting, enforcement disparities, and other EJ issues have often been closely connected to residential segregation and concentrated poverty, as … [Read more...] about
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Chicago 1966: The Chicago Freedom Movement
Chicago 1966: The Chicago Freedom Movement An Historical Commemoration - A look back at Martin Luther King's attack on Northern residential segregation. New in 2014: Bernie Kleina’s Chicago Freedom Movement documentary photos now online at the Smithsonian In coordination with the Chicago-based conference “Fulfilling the Dream: The Chicago Freedom Movement, … [Read more...] about Chicago 1966: The Chicago Freedom Movement