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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... Fair Housing Policies 91 CHAPTER FivE Indirect Attack A Housing Freeze Kills Civil Rights Efforts 121 CHAPTER Six The Recent Past, Present, and Future of Residential Desegregation List of Abbreviations for Notes Notes Works Cited Index ...
... Fair Housing Act of 1968 (the year 2003 marked its thirty-fifth anniversary), 1954's Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision (fiftieth anniversary) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (fortieth anniversary). Some of these analy ...
... housing patterns . In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , the federal government had the opportunity to begin to ... fair housing legislation lagged behind antidis- crimination protections in other areas . ( In light of Congress ...
... housing desegre- gation by highlighting commonly cited factors: substantial opposition from industry, considerable ... fair housing law “affirmatively.” Moreover, a serious housing shortage had led Congress to make an enormous federal ...
... fair housing efforts seized upon political vulnera- bilities, which were fostered by the weak institutional basis for housing antidiscrimination policies. Institutions themselves are not actors; in- stead, institutions shape the ...
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