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Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Events

2018 PRRAC Board Meeting: PRRAC board members posing after meeting.PRRAC's "Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act Symposium" in Selma, Alabama: PRRAC board member Damon Hewitt and civil rights activists Bruce and Betty Boynton.7th National Conference on Housing Mobility: PRRAC Executive Director Philip Tegeler honoring Alexander Polikoff, “Father of Mobility,” lead counsel on Gautreaux, honored for blazing the trail of mobility as a means of integrating cities based on race and income.Cleveland, OH: Housing Choice Partners Executive Director Andrea Juracek and PRRAC Deputy Director Megan Haberle.PRRAC's "Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Resistance: An Evening with Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger" event: NCSD Outreach Coordinator Tyler Barbarin moderating event.7th National Conference on Housing Mobility: PRRAC staff preparing for presentation.7th National Conference on Housing Mobility: PRRAC Senior Research Associate Brian Knudsen giving a presentation.PRRAC's “Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act Symposium” in Selma, Alabama: Panelists, including PRRAC Executive Director Philip Tegeler.7th National Conference on Housing Mobility: PRRAC Law & Policy Associate Peter Kye.Fair Housing Intersections Panel Discussion (from left to right): PRRAC Board Members Dennis Parker and Demetria McCain, as well as co-founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice Vernice Miller Travis, former Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, and former Secretary of Education John King.Former PRRAC Executive Director Chester Hartman's retirement party: PRRAC board members (from left to right) Philip Tegeler, John Brittain, Elizabeth "Betsy" Julian, and John Charles Boger.Deputy Director Megan Haberle participating in HUD meeting on the Rental Assistance Demonstration program.PRRAC and LCCR's "Fair Housing Act At 50 Symposium:" Presentation on the Small Area Fair Market Rule court case by PRRAC Executive Director Philip Tegeler.2018 PRRAC Staff Holiday Lunch.UDC Law School's “FHA @ 50: Renewing our Commitment to Housing Equity Symposium:” PRRAC Executive Director Philip Tegeler and other panelists at event.PRRAC board members speaking at PRRAC anniversary event.Buffalo, NY Fair Housing Work: Deputy Director Megan Haberle.PRRAC Executive Director Phil Tegeler and Board Member Dennis Parker at a 2019 NYU Law Panel on Race and Segregation.

PAST EVENTS

On November 4, 2021: MobilIty Works, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) will host the 8th National Housing Mobility Conference – #HousingMobility2021.

PHA officials, researchers, nonprofit leaders, families with vouchers, and anyone interested in learning more about housing mobility issues are invited!

Featured panels include:

  • The Housing Mobility Demonstration
  • Advances in Housing Mobility Policy
  • Recruiting Landlords in Tight Rental Markets (Including Housing Acquisition)
  • Involving Families with Vouchers in Program Design and Operation

February 26, 2021: Natalie Hopkinson and Sheryll Cashin discussed racial justice, segregation, and the resilience of Black culture within our shared, ever-evolving democracy – in the context of our city, Washington, DC. Moderated by PRRAC Deputy Director Megan Haberle.

This hour-long conversation probed the topic of DC’s changing racial and economic demographics, the influence of Go-Go music, and touches upon what both segregation and gentrification have meant for DC’s residents, in the arts, schools, neighborhoods, and halls of local and federal power.  

Additionally, we were honored to present Dr. Hopkinson with the PRRAC Voice for Racial Equity Award to mark our 30th anniversary. 

Featuring:

Natalie Hopkinson, Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard University, co-founder of Don’t Mute DC, and author of Go-Go Live and other works.

Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law and PRRAC Board Member, author of White Space, Black Hood (forthcoming) and contributing editor, Politico Magazine.

Moderated by Megan Haberle, Deputy Director, PRRAC.

 

September 19, 2019: PRRAC and NCSD hosted a powerful conversation, The Lines Between Us: At School and at Home. We discussed what divides Americans and what can bring them together. Who gets to live where? Who goes to school with whom? Will our government push us apart or pull us together?

Segregation continues to divide American neighborhoods and public schools. School desegregation plans have been dismantled, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently moved to weaken the disparate impact standard, one of the most powerful legal tools available to counter residential segregation and other forms of discrimination.

Our panelists are:

Moderated by J. Brian Charles, a freelance reporter who co-authored Governing’s comprehensive “Segregated in the Heartland” series.

 

October 16-17, 2018: The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), MobilityWorks, and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted the 7th National Housing Mobility Conference.  People from across the country, including public housing authority officials, researchers, and nonprofit leaders gathered to better understand how to further housing mobility and find new ways to collaborate on mobility efforts. The conference specifically recognized the pivotal moment in which we live; the housing mobility “movement” is growing and wielding greater influence: Some recent successes and notable occurrences, include bipartisan congressional support for the housing mobility demonstration bill, the growth of the MobilityWorks technical assistance group, and the release of the Opportunity Atlas from Raj Chetty and colleagues, further demonstrating the economic mobility potential of housing mobility…See More

 

April 26, 2018: PRRAC presented Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Resistance: An Evening with Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger…Photo Gallery

 

April 25, 2018: PRRAC and the Lawyers’ Committee hosted an in-depth look at the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act: The Fair Housing Act At 50…Photo Gallery

 

April 18, 2018: PRRAC hosted a symposium on Civil Rights Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act in Selma, Alabama…Photo Gallery

March 22, 2018: PRRAC hosted a symposium on Fair Housing Intersections, exploring the connections between housing policy, transportation, and environmental justice…Photo Gallery