Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960

Presidential and Judicial Politics

• Author(s): Charles M. Lamb,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 302
• ISBN_10: 1139444182
  ISBN_13: 9781139444187
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / American Government / General , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Process / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , History / Modern / 20th Century / General ,

Description:... This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market. It argues that a principal reason for suburban housing segregation lies in Richard Nixon's 1971 fair housing policy, which directed Federal agencies not to place pressure on suburbs to accept low-income housing. After exploring the role played by Lyndon Johnson in the initiation and passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Nixon's politics of suburban segregation is contrasted to the politics of suburban integration espoused by his HUD secretary, George Romney. Nixon's fair housing legacy is then traced through each presidential administration from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton and detected in the decisions of Nixon's Federal Court appointees.