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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... White House has had similar problems. Wilson notes that “the White House repeatedly tries to tidy up these relationships and bring the regulatory agencies under close supervision, but the history of these at- tempts is one of dashed ...
... White House, but they are un- likely to have success asking civil rights staffers to “ease up” and make the agency's efforts appear ineffectual. In housing, the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) was the most influential ...
... White House to battle civil rights agencies aggressively and explicitly, making clear that the relax- ation of enforcement efforts is a gift to its political supporters. A com- peting expectation follows from Weaver's assertion that ...
... White House objectives. The president may attempt to rid an agency of troublesome employees by firing them or forcing their resignations. As discussed in the previous section, the White House has struggled to get agencies to act as the ...
... housing asso- ciated with the federal government to be " public housing . " Of the op- tions that were on the table ... White House at a pivotal time for civil rights policy , coupled with his often - unpredictable positions on specific ...
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