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Last summer, students in the Center’s Justice Lab Clinic<\/a>\u00a0released their\u00a0Philadelphia Rental Assistance Demonstration Program Advocacy Guide<\/a>.\u00a0 The \u201cRAD\u201d program, an initiative of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, allows municipalities to invite investors to support \u201cconversions\u201d of housing units from public to private ownership. But according to Justice Lab, which studied the program in collaboration with\u00a0Community Legal Services<\/a>, inadequate steps have been taken to protect low-income tenants as conversions go forward.<\/p>\n

As a follow-up, Fall 2016 Advanced Clinic student Martha Guarnieri analyzed new RAD conversion data and discovered that the Philadelphia Housing Authority is not disclosing how much housing RAD is creating or which private developers have contracts in Philadelphia.\u00a0 This information was used in testimony<\/a>\u00a0offered by CLS to the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the Philadelphia Division of Housing and Community Development concerning the City\u2019s draft “Assessment of Fair Housing.” \u00a0Justice Lab and CLS urged PHA to revise its Assessment to include more transparency and data about the RAD program and its potential impact on the City\u2019s already-insufficient low-income housing supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, students in the Center’s Justice Lab Clinic\u00a0released their\u00a0Philadelphia Rental Assistance Demonstration Program Advocacy Guide.\u00a0 The \u201cRAD\u201d program, an initiative of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, allows municipalities to invite investors to support \u201cconversions\u201d of housing units from public to private ownership. 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