Discussion: What Should Communities Be Doing To Further Fair Housing?

by Amanda Zamora

ProPublica, Nov. 1, 2012, 2:34 p.m.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 banned housing discrimination and mandated that the government “affirmatively further” fair housing. But the law didn’t make it clear exactly what that meant.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, charged with enforcing the law, has since granted billions of dollars in block grants to communities on the condition that they track obstacles to fair housing and their efforts to overcome them, and prove that they do not discriminate. But HUD has only withheld funding for violations only twice since 1974. Meanwhile, segregation levels have barely budged.

So what should communities be doing to “affirmatively further” fair housing? We asked fair housing experts and readers to weigh in on Quora.

Find excerpts of that discussion below, or visit our discussion page on Quora to tell us what you think.

Setting community goals

via Discussion: What Should Communities Be Doing To Further Fair Housing? – ProPublica.