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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]
The Fair Housing Act was passed at the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the federal Fair Housing Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619, penalties for violation at 42 U.S.C. 3631) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 only one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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 ...
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 ...
It prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This section is also referred to as the Fair Housing Act . This act is enforced at the national level by the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the United States Department of Housing and Urban ...
Observers estimate the city needs more than 100,000 new affordable units to make up for the shortage. There are efforts underway to close that gap, but it could take years to accomplish.
For zip code 10035, home to another neighborhood on the island of Manhattan, the average income is a fraction, $26,000. Nearly half of the population identify as Black and Latinx. Nearly half of ...
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-2261-3069-9. Hirsch, Arnold Richard. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960. (U of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-2263-4244-3) Hutchison, Ray.