An edition of Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost (1995)

Closed doors, opportunities lost

the continuing costs of housing discrimination

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An edition of Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost (1995)

Closed doors, opportunities lost

the continuing costs of housing discrimination

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Nearly three decades after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics remains rampant in the United States. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost reports on a landmark nationwide investigation of real estate brokers and landlords, comparing their treatment of equally qualified white, black, and Hispanic customers. The study reveals pervasive discrimination.

Economist John Yinger provides a lucid account of these disturbing facts and shows how deeply housing discrimination can affect the living conditions, education, and employment of black and Hispanic Americans.

Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost provides a history of fair housing and fair lending enforcement and joins the intense debate about integration policy. Yinger proposes a bold, comprehensive program that aims not only to enforce laws against discrimination in housing and mortgage markets but also to address the underlying causes of discrimination by attacking racial and ethnic disparities and supporting community efforts to promote integration.

He urges reforms to strengthen the enforcement powers of HUD and other agencies, provide funding for poor and integrated schools, encourage local housing and race-counseling programs, and shift income tax breaks toward low-income home-buyers. This volume speaks directly to the ongoing debate about the nature and causes of poverty and the underclass, civil rights policy, and the plight of our nation's cities.

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Cover of: Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost
Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination
September 1997, Russell Sage Foundation Publications
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-413) and indexes.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
332.7/22/0973
Library of Congress
HG2040.5.U5 Y56 1995

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Pagination
xii, 452 p. :
Number of pages
452

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Open Library
OL794461M
Internet Archive
closeddoorsoppor0000ying
ISBN 10
0871549670
LCCN
95030260
OCLC/WorldCat
32698153
Library Thing
1770586
Goodreads
4194783

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