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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-06-26 02:25:00

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Fair Housing Won’t Be Enough

In a 5–4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court made it easier for advocates to use the Fair Housing Act to integrate communities and dissolve the racial and economic lines dividing them. This decision has immense historic significance, as government and private actors for decades have located affordable housing in low-income neighborhoods. This historical trend has separated the poor from the affluent, effectively cleaving cities and regions into separate areas—those largely for the wealthy and white, and those largely for low-income people of color.



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