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Zusatztext "The Fight for Fair Housing documents the absolute necessity of fair housing enforcement and chronicles the history of the quest for fairness in the places where Americans live." Henry Cisneros! Chairman of CityView and former Secretary of HUD"The Fight for Fair Housing provides the definitive account of the nation's struggle to realize the goals of the Fair Housing Act! and it does so through the eyes of the scholars who have chronicled the story and the activists who continue the battle for what is right! good and fair."Sheryll Cashin! author of Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy"The Fair Housing Act has been critically important for families! communities! and all segments of the housing industry. The Fight for Fair Housing educates us about the continued need to dismantle barriers! ultimately moving us closer to being a nation where fair housing and equal opportunity are the norm in all communities."Steve Rasmussen! CEO Nationwide "Fifty years have passed since the signing of the Fair Housing Act! the most important housing reform that the civil rights era produced. The expert contributors to The Fight for Fair Housing reexamine the law's purpose! impact and legacy. But from the old days of racially restrictive housing covenants and overt redlining to today's new challenges of gentrification and dislocation! the message is clear: The battle to protect equal housing rights does not end. It only changes form."?Clarence Page! Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist! Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau? Informationen zum Autor Gregory D. Squires is a professor of sociology and public policyand 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
