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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... 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 dissertation mu- tated and expanded into this book. In my ...
... 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.
... neighborhoods if they want to, and (Negroes/blacks/African Americans) should respect that right.” In the 1963 survey, 60 percent of white respondents agreed with the statement; that number declined to 56 percent in the 1968 survey and ...
... neighborhoods by refusing to insure mortgages in multiracial neighborhoods , and in many all - black neighborhoods as well . In doing so , the federal government affirmed the beliefs of prospec- tive white homeowners and private ...
... neighborhoods accord- ing to their race (as was customary); and (4) withholding government funds from localities or other entities whose actions (or inaction) pro- moted segregation. These strategies, if pursued more aggressively and ef ...
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