‘The Housing Czar!’ At the Rental Ripoff Hearings, Cea Weaver — Mayor Mamdani’s trusted tenant adviser and New York Post punching bag — is a minor celebrity.

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.

HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done — Shelterforce Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.

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

The Federal Government is Weaponizing the Fair Housing Act. We Must Fight Back. Op-ed: The federal administration is perverting the landmark civil rights law, with “reverse racism” investigations and “color blind” policy. Communities aren’t taking it lying down.

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

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PRRAC Update: more HUD rulemakings; PRRAC ED op-ed in Shelterforce; HOPE VI research (February 5, 2026) - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy A Deluge of Dreck from HUD: Three different harmful rulemakings from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have cleared the inter-agency

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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HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.

“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.

Public Inspection: Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard

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.

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The Trump Admin’s Anti-Immigrant Housing Policy Reflects a History of Xenophobia in Public Housing Op-ed: A scholar explains how inti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing but ultimately fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.

nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Delaware landlords now must accept Section 8 applications A new law now requires landlords in Delaware to consider rental applications from people who pay rent using Section 8 vouchers, a government rental assistance for those with low incomes.The law, which...

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.

Why We Must Fight for Housing First Housing with preconditions means more people will cycle through shelters, jails, and the streets, fueling efforts to criminalize homelessness instead of solving it.

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

Redlining is a bigger problem than banks' representatives admit The American Bankers Association's assessment of the Biden administration's fair lending enforcement efforts makes questionable claims about a practice that remains a major problem in some U.S. commun...

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...

Redlining is a bigger problem than banks' representatives admit The American Bankers Association's assessment of the Biden administration's fair lending enforcement efforts makes questionable claims about a practice that remains a major problem in some U.S. commun...

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...

PRRAC Update (October 16, 2025): Federal civil service decimation; new PRRAC & NHLP publications - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy The Cynical Use of the Government Shutdown to Complete the Decimation of the Federal Civil Service: Reporting from Bloomberg CityLab with regard to HUD and

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 $$$.

PRRAC Update (October 2, 2025): Last chance to register for Housing Mobility Conference + 2025 Mobility Programs Report is here! - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy Register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility before It Is Too Late: The registration period for the 10th National Conference on Housing

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.

A screenshot of an X post from the verified account of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (@HUDgov), posted at 11:40 PM on September 30, 2025. The post reads: “HUD’s website has been updated with the following message: 'The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.'” Below the post is a screenshot of the HUD.gov homepage with a large red banner with the described message spanning the top of the main webpage.

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.

PRRAC Update (September 18, 2025): Register for Housing Mobility Conference! + Nebraska SOID challenge; CA zoning reform - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy New Misguided Challenge to Source-of-Income Discrimination Protections Filed in Nebraska: On September 4, 2025, four private landlords filed suit in the

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.

Kaine, Schiff, & Peters Introduce Bill to Protect Veterans and Low-Income Families from Housing Discrimination | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), a former fair housing attorney, and Adam Schiff (D-CA), alongside U.S. Representative Scott...

"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.

To sprawl or not to sprawl But is that really the question?

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.

Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice.

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.