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

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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
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 rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
🚨 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 🔽
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
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! shorturl.at/Fpreb
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Affirmative marketing is key to ensuring that our federally-assisted housing programs live up to their potential to advance civil rights.
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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. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-…
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“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.
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 washingtonpost.com/business/…
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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.”
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
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! tinyurl.com/28vbhskt
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
.@PRRAC_DC’s @T_Silverstein on Trump’s legally dubious efforts at rolling back civil rights: 🔗 slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
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."
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
"Several major cities and housing organizations situated within them — including Boston, Cleveland and Seattle — have expressed alarm about the proposal" 🔗housingwire.com/articles/cit…
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
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!
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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. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC retweeted
NLIHC is calling on advocates to act with the fierce urgency of now to protect vital HUD programs and staff! bit.ly/4gNPJBe
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