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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... missions within the agency resulted in various sectors of the agency working at cross-purposes from one an- other. These characteristics in particular made HUD acutely vulnerable to political attack, and President Nixon seized upon this ...
... mission of fighting racial dis- crimination had immediate legitimacy , though the agencies did need to develop legitimacy for the strategies that they employed to bring these mandates to life . Rather than being earned over the course ...
... mission of an agency have important direct effects on policy outcomes. In addition, the institutional home of a policy has a marked influence on how prior policies and external factors that may in- fluence policy development—such as ...
... mission. Yet, one can best understand the failure of HUD's suburban in- tegration efforts not as a story of institutions as such, but of how politi- cal actors opposed to fair housing efforts seized upon political vulnera- bilities ...
... mission in question to be primary, other agency missions do not conflict with the mission in question, the agency's legitimacy will be judged by the achievement of that mission, and achievement of the agency's primary mission is ...
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