Federal Housing Administration
Throughout its history the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has contributed to the discrimination that African Americans face in the housing market. It has allowed arrangements within housing deeds that forbade them from being sold to black Americans. In 1948, these types of covenants were prohibited by the Supreme Court, the FHA still urged builders to include them in the housing contracts. The issue with this ruling, in the case Shelley v. Kramer, was that it did not make it illegal for voluntary observance of the policies and were still able to register these policies with local authorities.
Read more about this topic: Institutional Discrimination In The United States Housing Market
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