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The Inclusive Communities Project is a Texas-based non-profit organization that helps low-income families obtain affordable housing. [5] In 2008, they filed suit against the Texas agency responsible for administering these tax credits, claiming it disproportionately allocated too many tax credits "in predominantly black inner-city areas and too ...
"The United States Supreme Court defines steering as a 'practice by which real estate brokers and agents preserve and encourage patterns of racial segregation in available housing by steering members of racial and ethnic groups to buildings occupied primarily by members of such racial and ethnic groups and away from buildings and neighborhoods ...
[1] [3] [4] [5] [8]: 1 Real estate developer Duncan McDuffie was one of the early proponents of single-family zoning in this neighborhood of Berkeley to prevent a dance hall owned by a Black resident from moving into houses he was trying to sell. He worried that families of color moving into the neighborhood would decrease the desirability of ...
The city’s decades-long battle to overhaul local rules to allow more, denser housing to be built may be reaching a turning point.
Zoning reform won’t solve the housing crisis, but it’s a prerequisite for any plan that could “Ending single-family zoning is not the silver bullet to end California’s housing crisis.
Researchers at UNC Charlotte found corporate landlords “perpetuate long-standing patterns of inequity and segregation” with language in their rental listings.
For instance, even without institutionalized exclusionary power, residential neighbors can harass and intimidate tenants. [ 3 ] Most nonexclusionary discrimination cases involve applying discriminatory terms and conditions within the victim's current residential setting.
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