The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing ACT

ISBN-13: 9781138682535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Gregory D. Squires

Opis

The Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed at a time of turmoil, conflict, and conflagration in cities across the nation. The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate, to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns that characterized most cities. This book tells us what happened, why and what remains to be done.

Spis treści

Foreword The Legacy of a Movement Chapter 1. Fair Housing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Chapter 2. From Jim Crow to Fair Housing Chapter 3. The Legislative Battle for the Fair Housing Act (1966-1968) Chapter 4. The Costs of Segregation and the Benefits of the Fair Housing Act Chapter 5. More Than Just Race: Proliferation of Protected Groups and the Increasing Influence of the Act Chapter 6. The Fair Housing Act: A Tool for Expanding Access to Quality Credit Chapter 7. The Rocky Road Home: Latino Immigration and Fair Housing in California Chapter 8. From the ‘Perpetual Foreigner’ to the ‘Model Minority’ to the ‘New Transnational Elite’: The Residential Segregation of Asian Americans Chapter 9. At the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Fair Housing Chapter 10. The Legacy and the Promise of Disparate Impact Chapter 11. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: The Mandate to End Segregation Chapter 12. Opportunity Communities: Overcoming the Debate over Mobility v. Place-Based Strategies Chapter 13. Fair Housing and Stable Suburban Integration Chapter 14. The Intersections of Race and Class: Zoning, Affordable Housing, and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Chapter 15. Living Downstream: The Fair Housing Act at Fifty Afterword Ending Segregation: The Fair Housing Act’s Unfinished Business

O autorze

Gregory D. Squires is a professor of sociology and public policy and public administration at George Washington University. Currently he is a member of the Advisory Board of the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center in Chicago, the Fair Housing Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Social Science Advisory Board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, D.C. He has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council and as a staff member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.