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Equity Issues (Housing), Fair Housing / Housing Discrimination, Segregation Policies, Segregation Policies

Housing Discrimination and a Just Society

Spencer Wells
April 25, 2017
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“Access.” Sarah Stewart.

April 20, 2017; NextCity

In spite of the federal government’s attack on equal rights issues across the spectrum, a recent National Fair Housing Alliance report titled “The Case for Fair Housing” boldly claims, “Instead of seeing the problem of segregation as intractable, it should be seen as foundational. You can pour all the money in the world into inequities in all these other areas, but if you do not address the segregation and discrimination that are the foundation of these inequities, it will be difficult to make any meaningful progress.”

Using fair housing tools to dismantle systemic segregation has seemed a lofty dream for too many years. That