In comprehensive overviews and case studies covering seven metropolitan areas, this volume provides an examination of prevailing housing conditions and their effect on special populations within the black community, and assesses judicial and legislative means of improving the status of both homeowne

In the past thirty years, the United States has made remarkable progress in reducing barriers in access to health care faced by racial and ethnic minority Americans. Most minority Americans born in the 1950s have vivid memories of 'separate and unequal' health facilities. By the 1980s, overt and blatant barriers to care were uncommon. In spite of the progress achieved, recent studies continue to provide evidence that minority Americans experience differential access to health coverage and to some health procedures. To investigate these differentials, contributors to this volume were asked to...