Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the SuburbsPrinceton University Press, 2010 M11 16 - 256 pages Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to implementing rigorous antidiscrimination policies, and why the agency's efforts were derailed by Nixon. |
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... HUD's failure, it is crucial to understand how the structure of the agency made its component offices particularly ... HUD acutely vulnerable to political attack, and President Nixon seized upon this vulnerability. At first blush, the ...
... HUD's failure in civil rights by directing attention to its disadvantaged institutional home for these activities. The term “institutional home” refers to the government agency, agencies, or agency division(s) through which relevant ...
... HUD's housing production and civil rights staffers. Production staffers had no reason to support NAREB's contention that housing policies should de-emphasize new production, and civil rights staffers sharply disagreed with the ...
... HUD's civil rights office may have had a comparative advantage in terms of state capacity, as it could draw on the information, resources, and possibly the staffing of other sectors of the agency (and existing civil rights offices); the ...
... HUD's civil rights office was clearly constrained by the institutional context under which it was created. Specifically, this office was part of a large, unwieldy bureaucracy with an unsavory policy legacy of tolerating and even ...
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Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the ... Christopher Bonastia No preview available - 2008 |