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The Last Plank: Rethinking Public And Private Power To Advance Fair Housing, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
The Last Plank: Rethinking Public And Private Power To Advance Fair Housing, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
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The persistence of housing discrimination more than forty years after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) of 1968 is among the most intractable civil rights puzzle. For the most part, this puzzle is not doctrinal: the Supreme Court has interpreted the FHA only a handful of times over the last two decades – a marked contrast to frequent doctrinal contestations over the statutory scope and constitutionality of federal laws governing employment discrimination and voting rights. Instead, the central puzzle is the inefficacy of the FHA's enforcement regime given that, in formal terms, the regime is the strongest …