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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... the government can and should do little to tinker with the market forces that sort people into neighborhoods by class, race, and ethnicity. Residential segregation is a difficult problem to address , but not 9780691136196_2CH1.pdf.
... forces such as business elites , advocacy groups , and the public at large influ- enced and responded to the agency's civil rights initiatives . Chapter 5 focuses on tensions and vulnerabilities within the agency that are traceable to ...
... forces would have little rationale for doing so.) Prior to federal monitoring requirements, around 200 large corporations volun- tarily did so through an initiative called “Plans for Progress,” which fa- miliarized participating firms ...
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