Fragile Rights Within Cities
Government, Housing, and Fairness
Published on 19. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-0-7425-4736-0 (ISBN)
Description
How fair are America's urban housing markets, and how effective is the government at ensuring open and diverse housing options for minority groups? To answer these questions, Fragile Rights Within Cities offers a current social science and policy examination of the understudied issue of equal opportunity trends and enforcement practices in housing. The contributors to this collection - who are among the country's major analysts of race and ethnicity, housing, and public policies - provide a rich, multi-disciplinary assessment of government programs aimed at enforcing one of America's hallmark civil rights laws. By evaluating roughly 40 years of civil rights education and enforcement within the nation's effort to promote fairness in housing markets, these experts provide a sense of possible policy options for the future.
Reviews / Votes
The major advantage of this volume is that it provides a critical analysis of the current state of racial and ethnic discrimination, housing, segregation, and civil rights enforcement....Fragile Rights withing Cities in an informative and well-written book that will appeal to a general audience as well as to sociolegal scholars, social scientists, and policy analysts interested in discrimination and fair housing policy. * American Journal of Sociology * Recommendeddddd * Choice Reviews * Recommended * Choice Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-4736-0 (9780742547360)
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John Goering, Ph.D is a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has authored and co-authored several articles and books, including Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination and Federal Policy and Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy. From 1997 to 1999, he served on the staff of the White House Initiative on Race, and he is currently a member of the Neighborhood Investment Advisory Panel Research Committee of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview: Housing, Justice, and the Government
Part 2 Discrimination in Housing: Research on the fair housing in Cities
Chapter 3 An Overview of Key issues in the Field of Fair Housing Research
Chapter 4 Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America:Unequal Treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans
Chapter 5 Assessing Racial Discrimination: Methods and Measures
Chapter 6 Paradoxes in the Fair Housing Attitudes of the American Public: 2001-2005
Part 7 Segregation and Integration
Chapter 8 Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000
Chapter 9 How "Integrated" did we become in the decade of the 1990s?
Part 10 Program Performance and Policy Options: Fair Housing Enforcement and Performance Issues
Chapter 11 Implementing the Federal Fair Housing Act: The Adjudication of Complaints
Chapter 12 Fair Housing Enforcement and Changes in Discrimination between 1989 and 2000: An Exploratory Study
Chapter 13 National Fair Housing Policy and its (Perverse) Effects on Local Advocacy
Chapter 14 Creating a Fair Housing System That Works for Latinos
Chapter 15 The Effectiveness of Fair Housing Programs, and Policy Options
Part 2 Discrimination in Housing: Research on the fair housing in Cities
Chapter 3 An Overview of Key issues in the Field of Fair Housing Research
Chapter 4 Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America:Unequal Treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans
Chapter 5 Assessing Racial Discrimination: Methods and Measures
Chapter 6 Paradoxes in the Fair Housing Attitudes of the American Public: 2001-2005
Part 7 Segregation and Integration
Chapter 8 Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000
Chapter 9 How "Integrated" did we become in the decade of the 1990s?
Part 10 Program Performance and Policy Options: Fair Housing Enforcement and Performance Issues
Chapter 11 Implementing the Federal Fair Housing Act: The Adjudication of Complaints
Chapter 12 Fair Housing Enforcement and Changes in Discrimination between 1989 and 2000: An Exploratory Study
Chapter 13 National Fair Housing Policy and its (Perverse) Effects on Local Advocacy
Chapter 14 Creating a Fair Housing System That Works for Latinos
Chapter 15 The Effectiveness of Fair Housing Programs, and Policy Options