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== Housing Highlights from HUD’s History (including preceding foundational legislation) ==
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''Presidential Administration: Harry S. Truman (D).''
'''1954'''''- ''The Housing Act of 1954 introduced the now-fraught term "urban renewal." It is this policy a continuation of the previous "urban development", that involved the razing of housing in largely minority communities and other issues around housing that would result in the displacement of hundreds by eminent domain from their neighborhoods and help fan frustrations in minority communities that would culminate in the 1960s in mass protests and rioting in cities across the country. The era of "urban renewal" would run through to the early 1970s and left behind it a fear of displacement and suspicion of development in
''Presidential Administration: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R).''
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''Presidential Administration: Lyndon B. Johnson (D).''
'''1968''' – The Fair Housing Act, often seen as the last major act of legislation of the Civil Rights movement, was passed to ban housing discrimination. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had lobbied hard to pass it, as access to housing was a pivotal issue for black and other marginalized communities. Despite the mandates of the legislation, in reality, neighborhoods in America remained and remain racially and ethnically segregated. Indeed lines of segregation in many localities were more strongly drawn by the midcentury exodus of whites from cities to the suburbs where racial minorities supported by redlining were explicitly unwelcome.
''Presidential Administration: Lyndon B. Johnson (D).''
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''Presidential Administration: Ronald Reagan (R).''
'''1988''' – The Housing and Community Development Act allows for the sale of public housing to resident management corporations. The Fair Housing Amendments Act prohibits discrimination based on disability or family status (e.g. towards families with young children, pregnant women or single parents).
''Presidential Administration: Ronald Reagan (R).''
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