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.”

“It’s critical we have disparate impact to fight against race discrimination,” said Thomas Silverstein, executive director of @prrac.bsky.social, who is watching at least a dozen housing and lending cases that could fall apart without it.” wapo.st/43onnu5

Check out our new explainer on the Trump Administration's latest attack on civil rights at HUD. It is critical that housing justice advocates & affordable housing owners comment in opposition to the repeal of HUD's affirmative marketing requirements.

“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.

Another study examined long-term impacts of recent efforts to re-segregate US school districts among Black youth, finding worsened alcohol use, heart disease, and self-rated health decades later in life. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... @prrac.bsky.social 4/

e.g., something I wrote for @prrac.bsky.social in 2021 discussing risk-based pricing by Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac & rec's for Biden Admin. (FHFA actually made some improvements towards racial equity in changing LLPAs under Biden, but likely to be rolled back.) drive.google.com/file/d/1wO9d...

Really great piece on the persistence of source of income discrimination & the role of fair housing testing in smoking it out. One small quibble: it isn't fair to say that bans on source of income discrimination haven't moved the needle. 37% is way to high of an incidence of discrimination, but...1/

Congress has the power to stop this from happening. But they have to exercise that power, and organized people have to force them to do so. The alternative is increasing homelessness just for kicks.

Read @prrac.bsky.social’s @tsilverstein.bsky.social on Trump’s legally dubious efforts at rolling back civil rights

“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.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Excited to contribute to @prrac.bsky.social's new special issue on transportation equity with @plcc.bsky.social director Sheila Somashekhar & former @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social dir. Gerrit Knaap, highlighting the work of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition www.prrac.org/newsletters/...

Building power to advance #MobilityJustice: An article in @prrac.bsky.social by PSU & @utaustin.bsky.social researchers examines the prospects of Title VI in the context of a Supreme Court & federal administration that do not acknowledge the existence of discrimination. www.prrac.org/using-title-...

From me - on the train wreck of an executive order on disparate impact.

Our Executive Director @tsilverstein.bsky.social explains why the Trump administration's attack on our civil rights statutes' disparate impact standard is contrary to law, fairness & commonsense in Slate.

NLIHC is calling on advocates to act with the fierce urgency of now to protect vital HUD programs and staff! https://bit.ly/4gNPJBe

Trump & his DOGE circus are doing all they can to wreak havoc on the federal government, but state officials can still get #SocialHousing built to serve regular, working-class renters across the country. Here’s how: 🧵

🛠️🏠 "Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing: A Toolkit" is now available! @aforhj.org & @prrac.bsky.social break down how advocates can shape LIHTC spending to secure affordability, tenant protections & community control—aligning public funds with #SocialHousing principles. 👇