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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... integration had dwindled to these self-selected localities and neighborhoods. Intrigued, I expanded my dis- sertation into an exploration of why we as a nation have made so little progress in the area of residential desegregation. That ...
... integrate the construction trades.4 At several junctures during this period , HUD appeared to be building the momentum to help forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by “ opening up the suburbs " to groups ...
... integration have shifted, at least in the abstract. The National Opinion Research Center has periodically asked respondents to agree or disagree, slightly or strongly, with the following statement: “White people have a right to keep ...
... integration and mar- keted to a wide cross-section of potential buyers so that the units are racially and economically integrated. The housing production staff has little interest in losing the good will of the builders or endangering ...
... integration in their advertising strategies and tenant selection; (3) re- quiring real-estate brokers to inform clients of all residential options, rather than showing families homes in different neighborhoods accord- ing to their race ...
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