what white americans have never fully understand but what the negro can never forget is that what so siciety is deeply integrated in the ghetto. white institutions created it maintain it, and white soeoociety condones it. reassembling with integrated mixed income communities the law banned racial discrimination and housing but it also required the government to play a proactive role in transforming america s segregated communities and affirmatively furthering fair housing. if they wanted housing dollars, the fair housing act said they had to show they deserved those numbers. however, as nicole jones reported in her 2012 deep dive decade after decade the federal government failed to enforce the law.