AS AM 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Flight, Environmental Racism, Racial Segregation In The United States
15 Feb 2018
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California"s legislature approved a fair housing act in 1963. In reply, the california real estate association and other groups supported prop 14 in 1964, which gave owners and landlords "absolute discretion" to sell or lease private property; saying that people should have complete right over their properties. Neglect the fact that segregation is inter-correlated with many other aspects of inequalities. 14, while the california supreme court, the u. s. supreme court, and pat brown opposed it. Prop 14 was later strike down by the californian supreme court. "functioning communities": robust public and private services, basic infrastructure. Dysfunctional communities: crime, lack of ownership, unemployment. Access to housing as a matter of public health. Environmental hazards, the economics of real estate, and "environmental racism" Residential areas near industrial uses, and the health consequences of living near these sites. Richard nixon in 1968 and 1972, and housing programs in major american cities, 1969-1973.
