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PRRAC Update: new version of Appendix B; challenge to HUD guidance; CLE opportunity (April 2, 2026)

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PRRAC Publishes Updated Edition of Appendix B, Our Compendium of Source of Income Discrimination Laws: PRRAC has updated our signature compendium of source of income discrimination laws, Appendix B. The compilation was updated for the Fourth National Conference on Housing Mobility in 2012 and was published as an appendix to the PRRAC and Urban Institute housing mobility toolkit that followed the conference, Expanding Choice: Practical Strategies for Building a Successful Housing Mobility Program (May 2013). Since 2013, we have regularly updated the appendix as these state and local laws have proliferated. This most recent update comes at a critical moment in the fight against source of income discrimination. States and localities that are committed to furthering fair housing continue to adopt new protections against source of income discrimination, but some states have responded to that progress by adopting regressive preemption laws that prevent localities from protecting voucher holders. Meanwhile, the pernicious theory that source of income protections conflict with the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures has gained traction in some courts. This updated version of Appendix B will help to bring clarity to the field at an otherwise confusing time.

States Challenge Harmful Conditions on HUD Fair Housing Enforcement Grants: On March 16, 2026, several states and the future Douglass Commonwealth filed an Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) challenging guidance that has placed unlawful conditions on the receipt of Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) funds. Authorized by the Fair Housing Act itself, FHAP monies reimburse state and local civil rights agencies whose jurisdictions have fair housing laws that are substantially equivalent to the federal Fair Housing Act for the cost of performing the kinds of investigation, conciliation, and enforcement functions also performed by HUD. The conditions that HUD has purported to place on the receipt of FHAP funds are particularly pernicious in that they would not only constrain recipients from applying the federal Fair Housing Act in ways that are disfavored by current HUD leadership (but totally consistent with case law) but also prevent such agencies from enforcing their own, more expansive protections, including prohibitions on source of income discrimination. In this light, the conditions are an affront to federalism principles that the conservative legal movement has often claimed to hold dear. PRRAC will monitor this litigation closely as it goes forward.

Other news and resources

Revisions to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Regulation B Return to OIRA: On March 30, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sent its final rule to revise its longstanding Equal Credit Opportunity rules, codified as Regulation B, to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for interagency review. The OIRA docket states that “no material change” was made from the proposed rule that the CFPB published last November. This Updatehas already described why these changes would be harmful, and PRRAC both submitted its own comment letter opposing the rule and joined a more detailed letter led by the National Fair Housing Alliance this past December.

PRRAC ED to Speak about Community Opportunity to Purchase Acts at a New York City Bar Association CLE on May 7: On May 7, 2026, PRRAC Executive Director Thomas Silverstein will speak at a continuing legal education eventhosted by the New York City Bar Association entitled Current Issues in Affordable Housing in New York City. The panel on which Thomas will speak will address community opportunity to purchase acts, which provide municipalities and in some cases nonprofit community development corporations with a right of first refusal to purchase multifamily properties that go up for sale. Community opportunity to purchase acts, like tenant opportunity to purchase acts, can be a means of preventing displacement and converting unsubsidized housing that is affordable to low-income households into a source of meaningful, long-term affordability.

A Break from the Parade of Horribles – International Children’s Book Day: In this Update’s installment of A Break from the Parade of Horribles, the PRRAC team is celebrating International Children’s Book Day by sharing our favorite pieces of children’s literature. To be honest, we did not know that April 2 (Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday) was International Children’s Book Day, but now we do!

  • Audrey: The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone
  • Tessa: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
  • Thomas: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak