Register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility before It Is Too Late: The registration period for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility will close on October 6, 2025. The conference, which will take place in Chicago on Friday, October 17, 2025, is sure to be an enriching and energizing event. Panels will cover new research on the Housing Choice Voucher program, research regarding the connection between housing mobility and health, trends in source of income discrimination litigation, and how to effectively foster mobility in the involuntary relocation context. Our keynote will be a discussion between former Secretaries of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan and Julian Castro, moderated by Demetria McCain, Director of Policy for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. For more information and to register for the conference, visit this page.
Publication of Housing Mobility Programs in the U.S. 2025: PRRAC and our partners at Mobility Works are proud to release Housing Mobility Programs in the U.S. 2025, an update to our longstanding publication providing an overview of Housing Choice Voucher mobility programs nationwide. The updated publication captures the dynamic environment of the past three years, which has seen federal demonstration programs in furtherance of housing mobility and new state-level investments in mobility programs but also significant uncertainty around the funding outlook for the Housing Choice Voucher program. The country’s housing mobility programs are doing incredible work in a difficult environment, and the time is right for states and municipalities to step up and invest their own resources in replicating and expanding this successful model in the absence of federal leadership.
PRRAC Joins Amicus Curiae Brief in Defense of HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program: On September 29, 2025, PRRAC joined an amicus brief filed by the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council v. U.S. Department of Agriculture. The underlying case is a challenge to actions taken by the Trump Administration to freeze the implementation of various programs created pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act. One of those programs, HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, serves the vital purpose of funding badly needed repairs to aging federally assisted housing with significant conditions issues while also fostering energy efficiency. The brief we joined underscores the harm to low-income tenants resulting from pausing multifamily housing rehabilitation projects funded under the program. The Jane Addams Senior Caucus, the Lakeside Tower Tenant Union, the National Housing Law Project, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and the Tenant Advocacy Clinic at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law also joined the brief, in addition to PRRAC and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. A press release regarding the brief is available here.
Other news and resources
ProPublica Coverage of Harmful Threatened HUD Rules: ProPublica has an in-depth article on HUD’s harmful plans to limit access to assisted housing. PRRAC is working with coalition partners to counter these proposals.
New York Times Coverage of the Dismissal of Brave HUD Fair Housing Lawyers: The New York Times reports on the dismissal of Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, two career fair housing attorneys in HUD’s Office of General Counsel. Both spoke out against HUD’s abdication of its statutory obligation to enforce the Fair Housing Act. The civil rights community should recognize the heroism of Paul and Palmer in standing up for what is right.
