Housing segregation in suburban America since 1960 :
[Book]
presidential and judicial politics /
Charles M. Lamb.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
Separate worlds, separate lives -- Lyndon Johnson and the Fair Housing Act -- George Romney's blueprint for suburban integration -- Richard Nixon, centralization, and the policymaking process -- Suburban segregation from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton -- The federal courts and suburban segregation.
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This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000. It argues that a principal reason for suburban housing segregation lies in Richard Nixon's 1971 fair housing policy, which directed Federal agencies not to place pressure on suburbs to accept low-income housing.
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Housing segregation in suburban America since 1960.
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Discrimination in housing-- Law and legislation-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Discrimination in housing-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Housing policy-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Presidents-- United States-- Decision making-- History-- 20th century.