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It was not until the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 that such discriminatory practices were explicitly outlawed. [56] State-Level Legislation: California: AB 1466, passed in 2021, requires county recorders to identify and redact discriminatory covenants from property records.
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before 1963.
State-sponsored school segregation was repudiated by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Anti-miscegenation laws were repudiated in 1967 by Loving v. Virginia. [2] Generally, segregation and discrimination were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [3]
We know all too well the systemic roadblocks people of color, and particularly Black Americans, face in realizing the dream of homeownership. | Op-ed by T’wina Nobles and Maureen Fife
Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar," has floated the idea of putting the children of illegal immigrants in halfway homes as part of the incoming administration's mass deportation plan.
The Fair Housing Amendment Act of 1988 did make a system of administrative law judges to hear housing discrimination cases to help against the illegal actions. Other examples of federal legislation may include increased federal legislation enforcement, scattered-site housing, [21] or state and local enforcement on a more concentrated level. [81]
In California, members of an under-the-radar, minority religious community are stepping into the public eye to advocate for making the state the first in the nation to outlaw caste bias. There are ...
Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the Supreme Court outlawed segregated public education facilities for black people and white people at the state level. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 superseded all state and local laws requiring segregation. Compliance with the new law came slowly, and it took years with many cases in lower courts to ...