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

"Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, was the most robust piece of federal legislation aimed at stopping the systemic and severe discriminatory practices that defined the housing market at that time and through the present.This legislation has been crucial to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reina, Vincent J. (Editor)
Pritchett, Wendell E. (Editor)
Wachter, Susan M. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennslyvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subjects:
United States. > Fair Housing Act.
Discrimination in housing > United States.
Housing policy > United States.
Discrimination in housing > Law and legislation > United States.
Discrimination in housing.
Discrimination in housing > Law and legislation.
Housing policy.
United States.
Physical Description:ix, 201 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The long history of unfair housing / Francesca Russello Ammon and Wendell E. Pritchett
  • Chapter 2. Sociology, segregation, and the Fair Housing Act / Justin P. Steil and Camille Z. Charles
  • Chapter 3. Parallel pathways of reform : fair public schooling and housing for black citizens / Akira Drake Rodriguez and Rand Quinn
  • Chapter 4. The economic importance of fair housing / Vincent J. Reina and Raphael Bostic
  • Chapter 5. The Fair Housing Act's original sin : administrative discretion and the persistence of segregation / Nestor M. Davidson and Eduardo M. Peñalver
  • Chapter 6. A queer and intersectional approach to fair housing / Amy Hillier and Devin Michelle Bunten.