John Goering

Fragile Rights Within Cities

Government, Housing, and Fairness

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Produktbeschreibung

How fair are this country's urban housing markets and how effective has the government been at what it is charged to do in ensuring open and diverse housing options for this country's minority groups? Fragile Rights within Cities: Government, Housing, and Fairness offers a rich, multi-disciplinary assessment of the complex interface of housing, fairness, and government programs aimed at enforcing one of this nation's hallmark civil rights laws - the right to fair and open housing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9780742547353
• ISBN-10: 0742547353
• Artikelnr.: 22348497

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview: Housing, Justice, and the Government
Part 2 Discrimination in Housing: Research on the fair housing in Cities
Chapter 3 An Overview of Key issues in the Field of Fair Housing Research
Chapter 4 Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America:Unequal Treatment
of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans Chapter 5
Assessing Racial Discrimination: Methods and Measures Chapter 6 Paradoxes
in the Fair Housing Attitudes of the American Public: 2001-2005 Part 7
Segregation and Integration Chapter 8 Racial and Ethnic Residential
Segregation in the United States: 1980-2000 Chapter 9 How "Integrated" did
we become in the decade of the 1990s? Part 10 Program Performance and
Policy Options: Fair Housing Enforcement and Performance Issues Chapter 11
Implementing the Federal Fair Housing Act: The Adjudication of Complaints
Chapter 12 Fair Housing Enforcement and Changes in Discrimination between
1989 and 2000: An Exploratory Study Chapter 13 National Fair Housing Policy
and its (Perverse) Effects on Local Advocacy Chapter 14 Creating a Fair
Housing System That Works for Latinos Chapter 15 The Effectiveness of Fair
Housing Programs, and Policy Options

Rezensionen

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, March 2008 Recommendeddddd CHOICE Recommended CHOICE