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PRRAC In the Courts

Most of PRRAC’s advocacy is at the federal and state executive branch level – working to implement civil rights mandates in housing, education, and environmental justice. We have also been occasionally involved in litigation, as amici curiae in a number of key Supreme Court and appellate cases (see here), sometimes convening or working with expert witnesses, and on one occasion participating as a plaintiff (as part of the coalition that brought a challenge to Maryland’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit program). During the first Trump Administration, in response to the unlawful suspension of important civil rights rules that PRRAC worked so hard to secure during the Obama administration, we joined as co-counsel in two direct litigation challenges to HUD’s authority, Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson and National Fair Housing Alliance et al v. Carson (see below).


Source of Income Discrimination

Fletcher Properties, Inc., et al., vs. City of Minneapolis

Opinion of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota (January 2024)
Brief of Respondents (PRRAC, Housing Justice Center) (June 2023)
MN Supreme Court decision (July 2020)
Amicus Brief in Fletcher Properties v. Minneapolis (PRRAC, NHLP, & HJC, January 2020)
Amicus Brief in Minneapolis v. Fletcher Properties (PRRAC & NHLP, June 2019)

Apartment Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, Inc. v. The City of Pittsburgh

Opinion of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Western District (October 2021)
Amicus brief (FHP, PRRAC, NHLP) (May 2020)

Hare v. Brown

Hare Amicus Brief

HUD Fair Housing Complaints

Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign v. State of Maryland

Press Release (October 2017)
Voluntary Compliance Agreement (August 2017)

Supreme Court challenge to availability of Disparate Impact liability under the Fair Housing Act (2015)

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, et al. v. The Inclusive Communities Project (Texas v. ICP)

Amicus brief (Lawyers’ Committee, PRRAC, The Opportunity Agenda, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Leadership Conference Education Fund)
Texas v. ICP Amicus Brief (various housing scholars) (December 2014)

Challenges to Trump Administration Regulatory Rollbacks

Challenges to suspension of the AFFH rule

National Fair Housing Alliance, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, and Texas Appleseed v. Ben Carson and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (NFHA v. Carson)

First Amended Complaint (May 2018)
Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion (May 2018)
Memorandum Opinion (August 2019)
National Fair Housing Alliance et al v. Carson Plaintiffs’ Preliminary Injunction Motion and attachments

Challenges to suspension of the Small Area Fair Market Rent Rule

Open Communities Alliance v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (OCA v. HUD)

Court order (December 2017)

Challenges to suspension of the Disparate Effects rule

Open Communities Alliance v HUD (2020)


National Coalition on School Diversity Briefs

Coalition for T.J. v. Fairfax County School Board (May 2022)


Other PRRAC in the Courts Documents

SPLC Urges Supreme Court to Preserve Workplace Protections for LGBTQ People (July 2019)

Trump Comes for Baltimore, Baltimore Claps Back: raceAhead (Fortune) (July 2019)

Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs, 2010 WL 3766714 (N.D. Tex. 2010)

“Duroville” U.S. vs. Duro Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Remedy (April 2009)

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PRRAC – Poverty & Race Research Action Council

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More

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