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What are those 3 ways you ask? (1) Looking for other increments of profit motive to take out of development & property management processes by building state capacity; (2) adding in public subsidy alongside with continued reliance on cross-subsidization; & (3) democratizing property management!

And...we have a second post! Also from @tsilverstein.bsky.social (that might happen quite a bit) & this time explaining 3 ways of taking the scaffolding of Montgomery County, MD's social housing program & building a program more aligned with social housing principles like those of @aforhj.org.

This article has aged well. One day old and still salient!

'Neither YIMBYs nor tenant organizers have the power to solve the housing crisis without each other. The time is right to try to do it together.' prracperspective.ghost.io/bridging-the... Excellent from @prrac.bsky.social's @tsilverstein.bsky.social - written w/US context but highly relevant to UK.

New PRRAC publication just dropped. Check out the PRRAC Perspective! Here, we'll share our analysis of key developments in our sector. The 1st piece is a doozy from @tsilverstein.bsky.social, showing how far we've come since peak Housing Twitter (TM). prracperspective.ghost.io/bridging-the...

From friend of PRRAC Diane Houk, a must read.

Great to see residents refuse to back down in the face of these pernicious attempts to roll back SOI protections through litigation based on pretextual privacy “concerns.”

An insightful piece from friend of PRRAC Richard Rothstein on judicial supremacy in @scotusblog.com. www.scotusblog.com/2026/10/the-...

Trump's HUD has turned its authoritarian gaze upon - of all targets - Wells Fargo, announcing an investigation of the bank on the *putative* basis that its special purpose credit programs may violate the FHA. What's missing? A lot! 1. Any discussion of... www.hud.gov/sites/defaul...

From our friends at @cplusc.bsky.social stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/buildi...

Worth reading this AP piece on the impact of the Trump Administration's attacks on Housing First. It is helpful to hear the insights of unhoused folks, services providers & permanent supportive housing operators.

Great piece from @rcobooth.bsky.social. Some aspects of this issue not explored in the article but worthy of attention: - There is a long track record of successful litigation challenges to occupancy limits in the context of rejected reasonable accommodation requests... www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Check out this helpful new guidance from progressive state AGs addressing how their state anti-discrimination laws protect against practices that cause unjustified disparate impacts, regardless of the status of the Trump Administration's attacks on civil rights! www.mass.gov/doc/multista...

PRRAC is proud to support @vanhollen.senate.gov & Senator Young's Family Stability & Opportunity Vouchers Act. Investing in rental assistance & mobility counseling that helps families move to well-resourced neighborhoods breaks down entrenched segregation. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

From friend of PRRAC Richard Rothstein, reviewing an interesting new book about how to curtail judicial supremacy.

Will New York's Source of Income Protections Survive Legal Challenges?: shelterforce.org/2026/09/03/w...

From our stalwart Board member Michael Allen in @shelterforce.bsky.social on the fight for accessible housing.

Really appreciative of @newsday.bsky.social & @joshuasolomon.bsky.social for reporting this story, which describes some of the most egregious allegations of discrimination and maladministration by a PHA that I've ever seen.

From our friends at the NAACP. time.com/article/2026...

Great piece from fair housing advocates in OR about the need to require mapping & spatial analysis in AFFH efforts, including positive case studies & cautionary tales. Worth chewing on in states that don't have AFFH laws but might consider them & in places with existing, underveloped structures.

Great to the Youth Alliance for Housing highlighted in this piece and to see the leadership of young people in challenging both excessive rent increases and exclusionary zoning.

Great piece drawing from the work from longtime friend of PRRAC Kirk McClure. I don't think anyone (except the Koch-verse) is suggesting getting rid of LIHTC without a substitute, but I will just underscore that repealing & replacing should be on the table, not simple repeal.

Important reflections on the life and career of Alex Polikoff @impactforequity.bsky.social from Richard Rothstein.

"Vincent Reina, the founder of the Housing Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, explains it this way: 'Social housing implies essentially treating housing as an important public good for social welfare.'”

Constant Contact was acting up last Thursday, so we weren't able to get our April 30 Update out. Through the magic of WordPress, however, we have posted it on the website, so you can get the news you need before it gets stale. www.prrac.org/prrac-update...

www.remappingdebate.org/article/soci...

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

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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

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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.

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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:

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/

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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.

shelterforce.org/2025/11/26/w...

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...