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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... subsidizing housing production in the 1968 Housing and Ur- ban Development Act. Historically, the federal government has had an easier time securing regulatory compliance from private sector and from other governmental actors when the ...
... subsidies to a developer who plans to build 5,000 new units of needed housing in a metropolitan area. Bureaucrats responsible for housing production are thrilled. Bureaucrats in the civil rights office want to ensure that the housing ...
... subsidized housing.49 Towns designed these ordinances consciously to maintain economic segregation to the greatest extent possible. Debates over interpretation of the Fair Housing Act have focused largely on the question of whether ...
... subsidized housing in predominantly white or racially mixed neighbor- hoods; (2) requiring housing builders receiving government funds to fos- ter integration in their advertising strategies and tenant selection; (3) re- quiring real ...
... subsidy programs and to stop the hous- ing desegregation drive indirectly. Such a move helped Nixon to sidestep much of the blame normally pinned on politicians pursuing civil rights re- trenchment. It was HUD's weak institutional home ...
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