Maintaining Residential Integration: Municipal Practices and Law
47 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2017
Date Written: 1982
Abstract
Communities becoming racially integrated are usually confronted with the challenge of maintaining integration when the prevailing precedent would suggest that integration is a transition from all white to all black. Suburban integration following the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Law in 1968 presented an unprecedented challenge to those communities. Residential integration was not the desire of the majority of homeowners then and racial discrimination was deeply imbedded in the business of selling and buying homes. Some communities made a determination to embrace and maintain residential integration. Those municipal governments were pressed by many of their constituents and the federal policies tied to federal funds to affirmatively further fair housing. To many, that meant furthering stable integration. This articles delves into how integration and its maintenance was sought in public law and municipal practices.
Keywords: fair housing, racial integration, municipal law, Fair Housing Act, affirmative action
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