Nikole Hannah-Jones
ProPublicaâ€™s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal governmentâ€™s large-scale failure to uphold the laws meant to prevent it,More than forty years after President Johnson signed the landmark Fair Housing Act into law, residential segregation in America remains unresolved. Designed to help dismantle the nationâ€™s racially divided housing patterns, the act has gone largely ignored by every presidential administrationâ€”Democrat and Republican alikeâ€”since 1968. Â In ,Living Apart,, ProPublica investigates this failing, particularly how subsequent leaders, following President Nixonâ€™s lead, have declined to use the billions in grant dollars awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as leverage to fight segregation. Their reluctance to enforce a law passed by both houses of Congress and repeatedly upheld by the courts reflects a larger political reality. Again and again, attempts to create integrated neighborhoods have founderedÂ This ebook includes an exclusive afterword by the author, as well as an appendix of original documents dating from the Nixon administration, revealing the internal politics swirling around the Fair Housing Act shortly after its enactment.Â 
Nonfiction,History,Politics,Race,Social Issues,The United States Of America,Sociology
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law