Fair Housing Act

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  1/19/2023
  

  Biden Administration Plans Action on Fair Housing

  State and local governments are required under the Fair Housing Act to examine and act to eliminate patterns of discrimination in housing within their boundaries. The federal purse has seldom been used as leverage to ensure they comply. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/10/2021
  

  Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93

  Ramsey Clark's tenure as Attorney General saw the aggressive enforcement of civil rights law; his liberalism strained his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, who blamed Clark in part for energizing the "silent majority" that led Richard Nixon to victory. He continued in private life to represent unpopular defendants and oppose American militarism.

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• SOURCE: Gothamist
  10/5/2020
  

  Are Trump And Biden Fighting About Abolishing The Suburbs, Or Desegregating Them?

  Beneath the rhetoric rests a genuine policy debate over the extent to which the federal government needs to push municipalities to undo segregation. This debate has been going on since 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/14/2020
  

  The Black Lives Next Door

  by Richard Rothstein

  Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  

  Trump’s Racist Housing Tweet is Par for His Family

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Trump's appeal to white suburban homeowners echoes the discriminatory rental practices that built the Trump family real estate business. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Why Trump’s Blunt Appeals to Suburban Voters May Not Work

  “[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn’t understand,” [Matthew] Lassiter said. “Voters don’t want racial privilege challenged, but they don’t want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position.”

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  7-5-15
  

  The Supreme Court's Challenge to Housing Segregation

  by Richard Rothstein

  Justice Kennedy’s surprise support for the Fair Housing Act is breathtaking — and saved the law from the demolition intended by Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas.