Fragile Rights Within Cities: Government, Housing, and Fairness

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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.

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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 *
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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.