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Perspectives on Fair Housing: History
October 13, 2020
5:00 pm
Livestream
Event Recap
The Perspectives on Fair Housing series began on October 13, 2020 with a conversation between Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, Departments of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, and Wendell Pritchett, Provost and Presidential Professor of Law and Education.
The two set the stage for the creation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) in 1968. Ammon traced the public policies, financing mechanisms, and federal programs that led to the deeply segregated environment that the FHA sought to rectify. Pritchett spoke to the civil rights and housing crises of the era that the FHA was responding to and the role of the fair housing activist movement in the post-war era.
They then discussed some of the FHA’s impacts to date while highlighting some limitations and sharing ideas on additional measures to further the existing legislation.
Full recordings and recaps of each event can be found here.
