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How fair are this country's urban housing markets and how effective has the government been at what it is charged to do in ensuring open and diverse housing options for this country's minority groups? Fragile Rights within Cities: Government, Housing, and Fairness offers a rich, multi-disciplinary assessment of the complex interface of housing, fairness, and government programs aimed at enforcing one of this nation's hallmark civil rights laws - the right to fair and open housing.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview: Housing, Justice, and the Government
Part 2 Discrimination in Housing: Research on the fair housing in Cities
Chapter 3 An Overview of Key issues in the Field of Fair Housing Research
Chapter 4 Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America:Unequal Treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans
Chapter 5 Assessing Racial Discrimination: Methods and Measures
Chapter 6 Paradoxes in the Fair Housing Attitudes of the American Public: 2001-2005
Part 7 Segregation and Integration
Chapter 8 Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000
Chapter 9 How "Integrated" did we become in the decade of the 1990s?
Part 10 Program Performance and Policy Options: Fair Housing Enforcement and Performance Issues
Chapter 11 Implementing the Federal Fair Housing Act: The Adjudication of Complaints
Chapter 12 Fair Housing Enforcement and Changes in Discrimination between 1989 and 2000: An Exploratory Study
Chapter 13 National Fair Housing Policy and its (Perverse) Effects on Local Advocacy
Chapter 14 Creating a Fair Housing System That Works for Latinos
Chapter 15 The Effectiveness of Fair Housing Programs, and Policy Options
About the author
John Goering, Ph.D is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has authored and co-authored several articles and books, including
Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination and Federal Policy and
Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy. From 1997 to 1999, he served on the staff of the White House Initiative on Race, and he is currently a member of the Neighborhood Investment Advisory Panel Research Committee of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Summary
Offers a multi-disciplinary assessment of the complex interface of housing, fairness, and government programs aimed at enforcing one of the nation's hallmark civil rights laws - the right to fair and open housing.
