{"id":15579,"date":"2015-07-08T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15579"},"modified":"2015-07-08T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:42:19","slug":"obama-targets-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/obama-targets-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Targets Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we think of segregation, we usually think of the South, where Republicans openly oppose anything that might taint what they consider the purity of the white race.  Many Americans do not realize that the problem is as bad in the north.  The law is frequently unenforced.  Barack Obama is working to change that.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0708project\"When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine. It also required the government to go one step further \u2014 to actively dismantle segregation and foster integration in its place \u2014 a mandate that for decades has been largely forgotten, neglected and unenforced.<\/p>\n

Now, on Wednesday, the Obama administration will announce long-awaited rules designed to repair the law\u2019s unfulfilled promise and promote the kind of racially integrated neighborhoods that have long eluded deeply segregated cities like Chicago and Baltimore. The new rules, a top demand of civil-rights groups, will require cities and towns all over the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and to publicly report, every three to five years, the results. Communities will also have to set goals, which will be tracked over time, for how they will further reduce segregation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most serious effort that HUD has ever undertaken to do that,\u201d says Julian Castro, the secretary of the department of Housing and Urban Development, who will announce the new rules in Chicago on Wednesday. \u201cI believe that it\u2019s historic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials insist that they want to work with and not punish communities where segregation exists. But the new reports will make it harder to conceal when communities consistently flout the law. And in the most flagrant cases, HUD holds out the possibility of withholding a portion of the billions of dollars of federal funding it hands out each year<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click through for more details.  I applaud this move and consider it long past due.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we think of segregation, we usually think of the South, where Republicans openly oppose anything that might taint what they consider the purity of the white race.  Many Americans do not realize that the problem is as bad in the north.  The law is frequently unenforced.  Barack Obama is working to change that. When […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}