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"An important study that retraces the origins and aims of the two major federal policies--fair housing and community reinvestment--aimed at addressing racial segregation and discrimination in the housing market and mortgage lending industry."
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It is difficult to ignore the fact that, even as the United States becomes much more racially and ethnically diverse, our neighborhoods remain largely segregated. The 1968 Fair Housing Act and 1977 Community Reinvestment Act promised to end discrimination, yet for millions of Americans housing options remain far removed from the American Dream. Why do most neighborhoods in American cities continue to be racially divided?
The problem, suggests Mara Sidney, lies with the policies themselves. She contends that to understand why discrimination persists, we need to understand the political challenges faced by advocacy groups who implement them. In Unfair Housing she offers a new explanation for the persistent color lines in our cities by showing how weak national policy has silenced and splintered grassroots activists.
Sidney explains how political compromise among national lawmakers with divergent interests resulted in housing legislation that influenced how community activists defined discrimination, what actions they took, and which political relationships they cultivated. As a result, local governments became less likely to include housing discrimination on their agendas, existing laws went unenforced, and racial segregation continued.
A former undercover investigator for a fair housing advocacy group, Sidney takes readers into the neighborhoods of Minneapolis and Denver to show how federal housing policy actually works. She examines how these laws played out in these cities and reveals how they eroded activists' capability to force more sweeping reform in housing policy.
Sidney also shows how activist groups can cultivate community resources to overcome these difficulties, looking across levels of government to analyze how national policies interact with local politics. In the first book to apply policy design theories of Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram to an empirical case, Sidney illuminates overlooked impacts of fair housing and community reinvestment policies and extends their theories to the study of local politics and nonprofit organizations.
Sidney argues forcefully that under-standing the link between national policy and local groups sheds light on our failure to reduce discrimination and segregation. As battles over fair housing continue, her book helps us understand the shape of the battlefield and the prospects for victory.
This book is part of the Studies in Government and Public Policy series.
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In a Chicago public housing project, LaJoe Rivers and her young children find that home and neighborhood pose daily challenges to their survival.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In a Chicago public housing project, LaJoe Rivers and her young children find that home and neighborhood pose daily challenges to their survival.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reinvestment advocacy, fair housing activity, community reinvestment ratings, fair housing arena, fair housing activities, community reinvestment design, community reinvestment policy, policy design offers, community reinvestment movements, housing policy resources, community reinvestment activists, fair housing debate, community reinvestment advocates, fair housing advocacy, community reinvestment policies, fair housing supporters, community reinvestment groups, national policy designs, policy design perspective, community reinvestment issues, housing policy design, fair housing activists, fair housing movement, fair housing lawsuit, policy design framework Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Park Hill, Twin Cities, First Bank, United States, Community Reinvestment Act, Fair Housing Act, Fair Housing Initiatives Program, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, African Americans, Federal Reserve Board, Department of Justice, Colorado National Bank, Senator Proxmire, Legal Aid Society, Adversarial Adversarial, Civil Rights Act, Community Development Block Grant, New York, Community Housing Resource Board, Martin Luther King, Great Depression, Policy Design Impacts, Urban League, Enforcement Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy And International Financial Orders (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) by Leonard Seabrooke on page 118, and page 197
- Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs by Christopher Bonastia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Geography Of Opportunity: Race And Housing Choice In Metropolitan America (James A. Johnson Metro) by William Julius Wilson (Foreword) Xavier De Souza Briggs (Editor) on page 286
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