Next steps on housing mobility: Earlier this week, HUD announcedthat seven public housing agencies have been awarded funding for housing mobility services in a highly competitive funding round, based on a $25 million allocation in the 2022 Appropriations Act. The winning PHAs, selected from 46 applicants, included the Housing Authorities of Dallas, Boston, Houston, Birmingham, and Seattle, along with Milwaukee County and the Connecticut Department of Housing (in collaboration with New Haven’s Elm City Communities). These 7 PHAs join over 25 other mobility programs currently operating in the U.S., but many more cities need these programs – and we will continue advocating for both new funding and for flexibility and reform of existing PHA funding to support HUD’s fair housing goals.
Gentrification and schools: The latest paper in the UCLA Civil Rights Project’s “Civil Rights Agenda for the Next Quarter Century” series looks at the impact and policy options facing neighborhood schools in high cost cities: “Gentrification and Schools: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options.” For more research on the housing-schools policy nexus, see our housing schools pages here.
Giving Thursday: you may not have heard of “giving Thursday” but it’s not too late to donate to PRRAC!
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