Love to see coverage that captures the real Cea - totally prepared for the job, armed with a vast breadth and depth of housing policy knowledge, and utterly committed to building tenant power.

If you missed your weekly re-read of said Shelterforce piece, here's the link so you don't have to hunt for it.

An excellent companion piece to my @shelterforce.bsky.social article from January from our friends at @raceforward.org

Help us get this last $430 so we can start skeeting about federal agency rulemaking again!

Probably the second to last but definitely the most savory time we'll highlight this opportunity to support our work.

Shouldn't those extra seven miles also mean more comment letters to HUD, more amicus briefs to protect source of income discrimination bans from specious Fourth Amendment attacks, and more late night trouble-shooting with tenant organizers? I'd say yes! 2/2

Your donation not only supports the great work our team does; it also helps justify our ED's soreness.

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Yesterday's PRRAC Update presents an opportunity to re-read @tsilverstein.bsky.social's op-ed in @shelterforce.bsky.social (you've read it already, right?), to fret over bad HUD rules, to explore new HOPE VI research, and, most importantly, to imagine different Super Bowl halftime show scenarios.

Want to support our cutting edge work while boosting Thomas's motivation through the winter cold? Consider donating to this fundraiser!

“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:

Our ED @tsilverstein.bsky.social breaks down HUD's latest lawless perversion of the Fair Housing Act.

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. 1/

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

This is an outstanding piece from the legendary Alan Mallach.

via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda

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.

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...

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.

🚨 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 🔽

"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...

There could not be a more fitting tribute to the incredible career of our former Board member (and the best FHEO Assistant Secretary in HUD's history) Betsy Julian than an award named in honor of Alex Polikoff.

Check out this great report from our partners at PolicyLink to learn how to design, win, and implement effective rent control policies at the state and local levels (featuring our ED @tsilverstein.bsky.social).

We're so excited to announce our blockbuster keynote discussion with former HUD Secretaries Donovan & Castro and our former Board member, the legendary Demetria McCain. Join us at the conference! lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/dzzpc5q

Good news via @prrac.bsky.social: Supreme Court denies cert in the eviction moratorium case. It could have started down the road of eliminating rent control and eviction protections, but chose not to.

New anti-fair housing policies proposed by HUD and reported on by @prrac.bsky.social. If you are anywhere near fair housing work, sign up for their newsletter: www.prrac.org/update-sign-...

Thanks @nlihc.org for getting the word out about the threat to affirmative marketing!

It will take years to clean up this mess, and the damage that happens in the meanwhile will be incalculable. Lots of work for us to do and to prepare for.

And now @olatij.bsky.social on the Trump admin’s distortion of SFFA v Harvard. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

This is a great essay by @olatij.bsky.social, and worth reading alongside Trump's "proclamation" restricting foreign visas at Harvard, which cites (among other things) the university's purported non-compliance with the Supreme Court's decision in the SFFA case.

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

“'It’s critical we have #DisparateImpact to fight against race discrimination,' said @tsilverstein.bsky.social, executive director of @prrac.bsky.social, who is watching at least a dozen housing and lending cases that could fall apart without it."

“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.”