Breaking Up Segregation News Today

Breaking up segregation, right? and so with the disparate impact tool youre able to use some of the data and some of the information that you have to show the patterns that have existed way back to lets say 1937 overlaying that with maps of whats going on today. these municipalities taking hud rundz to take data maps and those kinds of things to see whats going on. as they make their planning their decisions on how to use that money. so in both instances its critical to see whats going on histor...

Analysis and history at new york university. so lisa, i want to start with you. can you answer that question? how would the world look different right now if this rule had been actively enforced at the beginning of this law? >> i cant answer that question. the world would look very differently. the united states would be a much more integrated society. if you remember if you look at the census historically america has always been integrated. it wasnt until governments and municipalities started ...

President richard nixon set the precedent when he shut down the efforts to give the law some teeth and, according to jones, over the next four decades a succession of presidents democrat and republican alike, followed nixons lead declining to use leverage of huds billions to fight segregation. those billions hud didnt get much for its money because it doled out all those dollars this exchange for communities still as segregated today as 50 years ago. the new rules announced by the obama administ...

Correct the mistakes of the past? fresh off the anniversary of the iconic fill being i found myself wondering about those presis questions as i thought about correcting the mistakes of presidents who came before him. castro announced that the federal government would finally be fulfilling a past commitment and to enforce the dismantling of segregation in the creation of racially integrated communities as required by the fair housing act. the act was passed and signed by president lyndon johnson ...