Perspectives on Fair Housing / / ed. by Wendell E. Pritchett, Susan M. Wachter, Vincent J. Reina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Ammon, Francesca Russello,; Bostic, Raphael,; Bunten, Devin Michelle,; Charles, Camille Z.,; Davidson, Nestor M.,; Hillier, Amy,; Morial, Marc,; Peñalver, Eduardo M.,; Pritchett, Wendell E.,; Quinn, Rand,; Reina, Vincent J.,; Rodriguez, Akira Drake,; Steil, Justin P.,; Wachter, Susan M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Pritchett, Wendell E.,; Reina, Vincent J.,; Wachter, Susan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 11 illus.

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 se...

Table of 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