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Although racial discrimination in housing market processes is outlawed by several court decisions and legislation, there is evidence that it still occurs. [1] [2] [3] For example, an HUD Housing Market Practice survey found that African Americans felt discriminated against in the renting and/or buying process of housing. [1]
Housing discrimination in the United States refers to the historical and current barriers, policies, and biases that prevent equitable access to housing.Housing discrimination became more pronounced after the abolition of slavery in 1865, typically as part of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation.
Following World War II, Chicago's South Side had become increasingly overcrowded as African Americans moved from the South in the second wave of the Great Migration.Unable to attain decent and sanitary housing in white neighborhoods because of racially restrictive real estate covenants and mortgage redlining by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), African Americans were confined to the ...
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Of the 49 public housing units constructed before World War II, 43 projects supported by the Public Works Administration and 236 of 261 projects supported by the U.S. Housing Authority were segregated by race. [20] Anti-discrimination laws passed after World War II led to a reduction in racial segregation for a short period of time, but as ...
A quantitative analysis examining trends in racial discrimination in the U.S. housing market from 1976-2016 found that discrimination by the means of direct denial of mortgage rates has significantly decreased since the 1970s, but that racial gaps in mortgage costs have not. [96]
The drawing of school districts is rooted in real estate redlining, a form of lending discrimination against Black families that began in the 1930s. Banks in the U.S. denied mortgages to people of ...
By 1960, it was the largest landlord in Chicago. In 1965, a group of residents sued the CHA for racial discrimination. After the landmark court decision Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority (see below), the CHA was placed in receivership, which would last for more than 20 years. Things continued to deteriorate for the agency and its residents ...