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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... enforced residential segregation . In the end the agency was unable to foster mean- ingful changes in segregation patterns . Scholars of social policy study success disproportionately because it is easier to study , and successful ...
... enforcement. Internal disputes over philosophies and protest strategies severely weakened the civil rights movement ... enforcing the newly passed fair housing law “affirmatively.” Moreover, a serious housing shortage had led Congress to ...
... enforcement ( see , for example , the Supreme Court's 1971 Griggs v . Duke Power decision ) . Moreover , ignoring the role of govern- ment agencies in policy formation “ leaves the most important political outcomes — the impact of ...
... enforcement. NAREB, however, had a tough case to make before 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 ...
... enforcement authority and funding.30 Prior policies can influence state capacities.31 These policy legacies (also known as policy feedbacks) may constrain some conceivable policy options and favor others. Policy-making is unavoidably ...
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