Giving Thursday: Just in case you were out in the wilderness somewhere and missed “Giving Tuesday,” there’s still time to donate to PRRAC – and we need your support to keep going! Please consider donating here so we can reach our ambitious goal by the end of December!
Reviewing Jessica Trounstine: PRRAC Senior Research Associate Brian Knudsen just published a comprehensive review of Trounstine’s important new book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, in the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law. You can read Brian’s review, “Causes and Consequences of Segregation,” here.
Upcoming NHLP-PRRAC webinar for advocates: “Working with PHAs to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” – Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 Pacific Time – Register here.
PRRAC in the news: See recent coverage of our analysis of school integration in the presidential campaign, our state and local housing mobility work, and AFFH in DC.
Other Resources:
Housing mobility and health costs: In a creative new analysis, a team at Johns Hopkins found evidence of moderately reduced hospital costs for children whose families received housing vouchers in the Moving to Opportunity study, with additional cost savings associated with moves to lower-poverty neighborhoods. Read a summary of the research here and the abstract here. This research builds on prior research on the health benefits of housing mobility, and our own estimates of long term health system cost savings.
New website tool traces impacts of school segregation: The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford (Sean Reardon et al) has released an excellent new interactive website describing access to educational opportunity for every school district in the U.S., which includes a series of tables explaining the persistent effects of racial and economic segregation on student achievement. The research papers underlying the new website are also collected here.
