Perspectives on fair housing / edited by Vincent J. Reina, Wendell E. Pritchett, and Susan M. Wachter ; foreword by Marc Morial.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reina, Vincent J., editor.

Pritchett, Wendell E., editor.

Wachter, Susan M., editor.

Morial, Marc H., writer of foreword.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series.

The city in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--United States.

Discrimination in housing.

Housing policy--United States.

Housing policy.

Discrimination in housing--Law and legislation--United States.

United States. Fair Housing Act.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) : 11 illus.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibited discrimination in the sale, rent, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin. However, manifold historical and contemporary forces, driven by both governmental and private actors, have segregated these protected classes by denying them access to homeownership or housing options in high-performing neighborhoods. Perspectives on Fair Housing argues that meaningful government intervention continues to be required in order to achieve a housing market in which a person's background does not arbitrarily restrict access.The essays in this volume address how residential segregation did not emerge naturally from minority preference but rather how it was forced through legal, economic, social, and even violent measures. Contributors examine racial land use and zoning practices in the early 1900s in cities like Atlanta, Richmond, and Baltimore; the exclusionary effects of single-family zoning and its entanglement with racially motivated barriers to obtaining credit; and the continuing impact of mid-century "redlining" policies and practices on public and private investment levels in neighborhoods across American cities today. Perspectives on Fair Housing demonstrates that discrimination in the housing market results in unequal minority households that, in aggregate, diminish economic prosperity across the country.Amended several times to expand the protected classes to include gender, families with children, and people with disabilities, the FHA's power relies entirely on its consistent enforcement and on programs that further its goals. Perspectives on Fair Housing provides historical, sociological, economic, and legal perspectives on the critical and continuing problem of housing discrimination and offers a review of the tools that, if appropriately supported, can promote racial and economic equity in America.Contributors: Francesca Russello Ammon, Raphael Bostic, Devin Michelle Bunten, Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Nestor M. Davidson, Amy Hillier, Marc H. Morial, Eduardo M. Peñalver, Wendell E. Pritchett, Rand Quinn, Vincent J. Reina, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Justin P. Steil, Susan M. Wachter.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Long History of Unfair Housing

Chapter 2. Sociology, Segregation, and the Fair Housing Act

Chapter 3. Parallel Pathways of Reform: Fair Public Schooling

Chapter 4. The Economic Importance of Fair Housing

Chapter 5. The Fair Housing Act's Original Sin: Administrative Discretion and the Per sis tence of Segregation

Chapter 6. A Queer and Intersectional Approach to Fair Housing

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812297447

081229744X

OCLC:

1224122335