New Rules on Housing Segregation
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 102 , Segment 1
Housing Segregation, Moby Dick, Between War and Peace
Episode: Housing Segregation, Moby Dick, Between War and Peace
- Jul 14, 2015 9:00 pm
- 21:33 mins
Guest: Jacob Rugh, BYU Sociology Housing and Segregation are Top of Mind today. In spite of fair housing laws passed during the Civil Rights-era, many US cities remain starkly divided by race. The Obama Administration last week unveiled stricter rules aimed at the broader goal of those fair housing laws. Yes, they prohibit discrimination based on race, but they also require local governments to actively foster integration in communities. That piece of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 has gone largely unenforced - and according to President Obama – the result includes the racial imbalances and lack of opportunity that have contributed to unrest in cities like Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore.