United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Difference between revisions

'''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 deliberate actions to isolate, disadvantage, and contain communities of color continued and 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.