🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC

PRRAC is a civil rights organization dedicated to promoting research-based advocacy addressing structural racial and economic inequality

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Our ED is running his first marathon in a little over six weeks and is raising money to support our work to advance racial and economic justice. Every dollar helps!

https://t.co/JihNahvxvm

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Trump's fascist takeover of DC "sets the stage for rounding up folks who are homeless, folks with mental health issues, folks who are disabled, & instead of helping them, forcing them into detention camps & institutions." @jesserbnwtz https://t.co/giusYPL320

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

🚨 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 🔽

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

"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 and their leadership on this critical issue.

https://t.co/zeOj0uTfLq

[🏡 Mobility Works Inc @Mobility_Works]

Our #HousingMobility2025 award ceremony will honor the brilliant 45-year career of @ekjulian1 and the memory of Alex Polikoff, two civil rights champions. Register for the Conference to honor their dedication and achievements! https://t.co/hXaAM41vgh

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Thanks @NLIHC for getting the word out about the threat to affirmative marketing!

https://t.co/LkmwcnDF0x

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Affirmative marketing is key to ensuring that our federally-assisted housing programs live up to their potential to advance civil rights.

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Check out our explainer on a proposed rule that HUD published yesterday that threatens to roll back nearly 50 years of progress. https://t.co/wMJHb0ZGlE

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Excellent piece from our Board Chair @OlatiJ on the weaponization of Title VI and how attacks on racial equity are unmoored from what the Supreme Court actually held in SFFA.

https://t.co/KtmGKnxVWE

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

The principle has been fundamental to ending “practices that perpetuate inequalities in our society that have their roots in Jim Crow, redlining and the state-sanctioned discrimination of the past.”

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

“It’s critical we have disparate impact to fight against race discrimination,” said Thomas Silverstein, executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, who is watching at least a dozen housing and lending cases that could fall apart without it.

[Laura Meckler @laurameckler]

For decades, the fed’l gov’t used data analysis - known as disparate impact - to ferret out discrimination, winning cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing + more. Now the Trump admin is unwinding those cases. w/
@juleswapo

https://t.co/jriX4DDZ28

[🏡 Mobility Works Inc @Mobility_Works]

Registration for #HousingMobility2025 is now open! Join us in Chicago this fall for one, two, or three days of learning, connecting, and collaborating. Register now! https://t.co/iCmjzFYeeq

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

.@PRRAC_DC’s @T_Silverstein on Trump’s legally dubious efforts at rolling back civil rights:

🔗 https://t.co/O62lEZMZlg

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

“This order aims to destroy the foundation of civil rights protections in this country, and it will have a devastating effect on equity for Black people and other communities of color,” said Dariely Rodriguez (@LawyersComm)

https://t.co/bXfjaRGOmH

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

Trump's budget proposal:
❌ Slashes rental assistance
❌ Guts public housing
❌ Kneecaps fair housing enforcement
❌ Cuts homelessness services

A budget is a moral document. Trump’s says: "Eat sh*t and die."

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

"Several major cities and housing organizations situated within them — including Boston, Cleveland and Seattle — have expressed alarm about the proposal"

🔗https://t.co/RfC6rbeiFN

[🏡 Mobility Works Inc @Mobility_Works]

Good time at #HousingIs2025, ending w The Power of Place, Helping Housing Mobility Programs Transform Educational Outcomes. HCV families should be able to choose a home based on their preferred school--just like higher-income families do. Mobility programs can make this happen!

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

Our Executive Director @T_Silverstein explains why the Trump administration's attack on our civil rights statutes' disparate impact standard is contrary to law, fairness & commonsense in Slate.
https://t.co/KEGtdryrA9

[National Low Income Housing Coalition @NLIHC]

NLIHC is calling on advocates to act with the fierce urgency of now to protect vital HUD programs and staff! https://t.co/dzyQ6TnK51