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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... practice of exclusionary zoning by municipalities. In legal theory, states are invested with complete power over local governments; however, states have typically granted local governments “home rule” authority for decisions affecting ...
... practices came under close scrutiny, many cities found few non-elderly whites willing to live in public housing with significant num- bers of racial minorities; as a result, integration within buildings became virtually impossible.55 ...
... practices legislation was added to the House bill " in the expectation that the Senate would drop it in order to get the bill through ... The Administration stood ready , if necessary , to drop both [ fair employment practices and ...
... practice in significant and sometimes surprising ways. One influence in the disparate development of these policies was the distinct policy legacies that existed in these ... Practices Committee (FEPC), which was charged with 26 CHAPTER TWO.
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