Poverty & Race Research Action Council
@prrac.bsky.social
PRRAC is a civil rights organization dedicated to promoting research-based advocacy addressing structural racial and economic inequality. Based in Washington, D.C. PRRAC.org
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“There is simply no legal authority to sustain HUD’s attack on targeted universalist policy interventions.”
@tsilverstein.bsky.social, President at AHJ member @prrac.bsky.social, breaks down HUD’s punitive investigations into Boston + Minneapolis:
@tsilverstein.bsky.social, President at AHJ member @prrac.bsky.social, breaks down HUD’s punitive investigations into Boston + Minneapolis:
HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done
Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.
shelterforce.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“There is simply no legal authority to sustain HUD’s attack on targeted universalist policy interventions.”
@tsilverstein.bsky.social, President at AHJ member @prrac.bsky.social, breaks down HUD’s punitive investigations into Boston + Minneapolis:
@tsilverstein.bsky.social, President at AHJ member @prrac.bsky.social, breaks down HUD’s punitive investigations into Boston + Minneapolis:
Our ED @tsilverstein.bsky.social breaks down HUD's latest lawless perversion of the Fair Housing Act.
HUD is invoking the Fair Housing Act when attacking disfavored cities for, checks notes, complying with the Fair Housing Act. Read my latest to learn more about what is going on and why it is very bad!
HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done
Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.
shelterforce.org
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Our ED @tsilverstein.bsky.social breaks down HUD's latest lawless perversion of the Fair Housing Act.
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Today, the "day early" version of a proposed HUD rule to rescind the Department's existing disparate impact regulations appeared on the Federal Register website. It will be formally published in the Federal Register tomorrow, kicking off a 30-day comment period. Here's what that all means.
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Public Inspection: Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard
Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard
www.federalregister.gov
January 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Today, the "day early" version of a proposed HUD rule to rescind the Department's existing disparate impact regulations appeared on the Federal Register website. It will be formally published in the Federal Register tomorrow, kicking off a 30-day comment period. Here's what that all means.
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Great and overdue news for tenants with Housing Choice Vouchers in Delaware. This passed a while ago but had an effective date that was set pretty far out after bill passage.
Delaware landlords now must accept Section 8 applications
A new law now requires landlords in Delaware to consider rental applications from people who pay rent using Section 8 vouchers, a government rental assistance for those with low incomes.The law, which...
www.newsfromthestates.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Great and overdue news for tenants with Housing Choice Vouchers in Delaware. This passed a while ago but had an effective date that was set pretty far out after bill passage.
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Fantastic piece from our friends at @natfairhouse.bsky.social and Relman & Colfax. Proving discrimination through circumstantial or indirect evidence is an approach grounded in over half a century of case law and shouldn't be considered remotely controversial.
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
Redlining is a bigger problem than banks' representatives admit
The American Bankers Association's assessment of the Biden administration's fair lending enforcement efforts makes questionable claims about a practice that remains a major problem in some U.S. commun...
www.americanbanker.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fantastic piece from our friends at @natfairhouse.bsky.social and Relman & Colfax. Proving discrimination through circumstantial or indirect evidence is an approach grounded in over half a century of case law and shouldn't be considered remotely controversial.
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
Fantastic piece from our friends at @natfairhouse.bsky.social and Relman & Colfax. Proving discrimination through circumstantial or indirect evidence is an approach grounded in over half a century of case law and shouldn't be considered remotely controversial.
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
Redlining is a bigger problem than banks' representatives admit
The American Bankers Association's assessment of the Biden administration's fair lending enforcement efforts makes questionable claims about a practice that remains a major problem in some U.S. commun...
www.americanbanker.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fantastic piece from our friends at @natfairhouse.bsky.social and Relman & Colfax. Proving discrimination through circumstantial or indirect evidence is an approach grounded in over half a century of case law and shouldn't be considered remotely controversial.
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
www.americanbanker.com/opinion/redl...
Did you miss last Thursday's PRRAC Update in the swirl of excitement that was the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility? Well, you can still read it here:
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
PRRAC Update (October 16, 2025): Federal civil service decimation; new PRRAC & NHLP publications - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
The Cynical Use of the Government Shutdown to Complete the Decimation of the Federal Civil Service: Reporting from Bloomberg CityLab with regard to HUD and
www.prrac.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Did you miss last Thursday's PRRAC Update in the swirl of excitement that was the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility? Well, you can still read it here:
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
Very interesting report from the Institute for Family Studies on multi-bedroom floorplans that pencil just as well as floorplans with fewer bedrooms AND align with household preferences. Across all income strata, we need more family-sized multifamily units.
ifstudies.org/report-brief...
ifstudies.org/report-brief...
Homes for Young Families Part 2 | Institute for Family Studies
This is part 2 of our Homes for Young Families Series, with this brief focusing on family-friendly apartments.
ifstudies.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Very interesting report from the Institute for Family Studies on multi-bedroom floorplans that pencil just as well as floorplans with fewer bedrooms AND align with household preferences. Across all income strata, we need more family-sized multifamily units.
ifstudies.org/report-brief...
ifstudies.org/report-brief...
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Yesterday w/ @shrivercenter.bsky.social, @prrac.bsky.social, @masslawreform.bsky.social, @seniorcaucus.bsky.social, Northwestern Law Tenant Advocacy Clinic, & Lakeside Tower Tenant Union, we urged the 1st Circuit to protect tenants, save homes, & uphold a preliminary injunction to access GRRP $$$.
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yesterday w/ @shrivercenter.bsky.social, @prrac.bsky.social, @masslawreform.bsky.social, @seniorcaucus.bsky.social, Northwestern Law Tenant Advocacy Clinic, & Lakeside Tower Tenant Union, we urged the 1st Circuit to protect tenants, save homes, & uphold a preliminary injunction to access GRRP $$$.
From yesterday's PRRAC Update: time is running out to register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility; the new edition of our report on housing mobility programs nationwide is out; and an important amicus brief about the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program.
PRRAC Update (October 2, 2025): Last chance to register for Housing Mobility Conference + 2025 Mobility Programs Report is here! - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility before It Is Too Late: The registration period for the 10th National Conference on Housing
www.prrac.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
From yesterday's PRRAC Update: time is running out to register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility; the new edition of our report on housing mobility programs nationwide is out; and an important amicus brief about the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program.
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Pathetic. HUD is supposed to serve everyone—not sling partisan mud.
A fully funded HUD could do so much to fix our housing crisis. Instead, leadership pulls stunts like this. We can do so much better.
A fully funded HUD could do so much to fix our housing crisis. Instead, leadership pulls stunts like this. We can do so much better.
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pathetic. HUD is supposed to serve everyone—not sling partisan mud.
A fully funded HUD could do so much to fix our housing crisis. Instead, leadership pulls stunts like this. We can do so much better.
A fully funded HUD could do so much to fix our housing crisis. Instead, leadership pulls stunts like this. We can do so much better.
The Update was positively packed yesterday. If you take away anything, you should take away that you should register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility ASAP! But stick around for the opposite of a hot take on CA's upzoning bill, dreary news about threats to SOID laws & more.
PRRAC Update (September 18, 2025): Register for Housing Mobility Conference! + Nebraska SOID challenge; CA zoning reform - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
New Misguided Challenge to Source-of-Income Discrimination Protections Filed in Nebraska: On September 4, 2025, four private landlords filed suit in the
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September 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Update was positively packed yesterday. If you take away anything, you should take away that you should register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility ASAP! But stick around for the opposite of a hot take on CA's upzoning bill, dreary news about threats to SOID laws & more.
"Prohibiting source of income discrimination is vital to our collective efforts to foster integrated communities, increase economic mobility, and reduce homelessness," said Thomas Silverstein, Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
Kaine, Schiff, & Peters Introduce Bill to Protect Veterans and Low-Income Families from Housing Discrimination | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), a former fair housing attorney, and Adam Schiff (D-CA), alongside U.S. Representative Scott...
www.kaine.senate.gov
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Prohibiting source of income discrimination is vital to our collective efforts to foster integrated communities, increase economic mobility, and reduce homelessness," said Thomas Silverstein, Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
This is an outstanding piece from the legendary Alan Mallach.
To sprawl or not to sprawl
But is that really the question?
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is an outstanding piece from the legendary Alan Mallach.
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via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda
September 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda
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Participating in this documentary was pure joy, I loved the boss! It’s excellent. Hope you will watch it on PBS.
We're very excited for the forthcoming documentary Becoming Thurgood, which will premiere on PBS next Tuesday and which features our Board member @sheryllcashin.bsky.social.
Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice.
www.pbs.org
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Participating in this documentary was pure joy, I loved the boss! It’s excellent. Hope you will watch it on PBS.
We're very excited for the forthcoming documentary Becoming Thurgood, which will premiere on PBS next Tuesday and which features our Board member @sheryllcashin.bsky.social.
Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice.
www.pbs.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We're very excited for the forthcoming documentary Becoming Thurgood, which will premiere on PBS next Tuesday and which features our Board member @sheryllcashin.bsky.social.
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The anticipation is building! We can't wait to see everyone in Chicago next month. In the meantime, if you're coming from out of town for any part of #HousingMobility2025 and haven't yet reserved your hotel room, please do. The discounted block expires on 9/15, and it may run out before then.
September 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The anticipation is building! We can't wait to see everyone in Chicago next month. In the meantime, if you're coming from out of town for any part of #HousingMobility2025 and haven't yet reserved your hotel room, please do. The discounted block expires on 9/15, and it may run out before then.
PRRAC teamed up with @nhlp.bsky.social , @homelesslaw.bsky.social & Covington & Burling on an amicus brief that makes the case for why bans on source of income discrimination are consistent with the 4th Amendment.
Check out our update to learn about the brief & more!
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
Check out our update to learn about the brief & more!
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
PRRAC Update (September 4, 2025): New amicus brief; HUD's xenophobic actions; PRRAC at YIMBYtown - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
PRRAC Joins Amicus Brief in Defense of New York’s Prohibition on Source of Income Discrimination: On August 18, 2025, PRRAC, along with our partners at the
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September 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
PRRAC teamed up with @nhlp.bsky.social , @homelesslaw.bsky.social & Covington & Burling on an amicus brief that makes the case for why bans on source of income discrimination are consistent with the 4th Amendment.
Check out our update to learn about the brief & more!
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
Check out our update to learn about the brief & more!
www.prrac.org/prrac-update...
Some big wins in the state courts on source of income discrimination, but we can't ignore the ways in which demagogic, evidence-free attacks on our unhoused neighbors are being used to justify the takeover of D.C.
PRRAC Update (August 21, 2025): The inhumane cost of Trump's D.C. plans - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Ramping Up the Criminalization of Homelessness Is Inhumane and Counterproductive: There is a lot to be said about what is wrong with President Trump’s
www.prrac.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Some big wins in the state courts on source of income discrimination, but we can't ignore the ways in which demagogic, evidence-free attacks on our unhoused neighbors are being used to justify the takeover of D.C.
Our ED was on the radio today to explain the harm and chaos sown by the Trump Administration's attacks on DC's unhoused residents and to correct the record on what actually works to end homelessness.
As a lifelong WPFW listener (yes, I was a strange kid), it was an honor to be on Community Watch & Comment (accessible here: archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_250...) to discuss the Trump Administration's outrageous attacks on our unhoused community members. Housing First works. Criminalization doesn't.
archive.wpfwfm.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our ED was on the radio today to explain the harm and chaos sown by the Trump Administration's attacks on DC's unhoused residents and to correct the record on what actually works to end homelessness.
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🚨 STATEMENT on Trump’s Attack on D.C.: Banishment is Not a Solution to Homelessness.
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale 🔽
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale 🔽
August 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨 STATEMENT on Trump’s Attack on D.C.: Banishment is Not a Solution to Homelessness.
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale 🔽
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale 🔽
"With so much funding at stake, Hawai‘i Appleseed is working to raise public awareness about how QAP works and how the community can be involved."
Thankful for our partnership with @hiappleseed.bsky.social and their leadership on this critical issue.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
Thankful for our partnership with @hiappleseed.bsky.social and their leadership on this critical issue.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
How projects compete for the state's hundreds of millions pegged for affordable housing
Have you ever wondered how the state determines which affordable housing projects get state and federal funding? HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on the process and some changes under consideration.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"With so much funding at stake, Hawai‘i Appleseed is working to raise public awareness about how QAP works and how the community can be involved."
Thankful for our partnership with @hiappleseed.bsky.social and their leadership on this critical issue.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
Thankful for our partnership with @hiappleseed.bsky.social and their leadership on this critical issue.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...