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Fair Housing Act
September 23, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Strangely Persistent Myth of the Suburbs
Democrats and Republicans have suburbia all wrong. How might their outdated ideas hurt them?
April 10, 2018
Magazine
Peter Edelman
More Than a Nuisance
How housing ordinances are making poverty a crime
January 17, 2018
Magazine
Rachel M. Cohen
The Fight for the Suburbs
How a battle over the Fair Housing Act could transform U.S. politics
June 30, 2015
Rebecca Leber
The Supreme Court Isn’t Afraid to Mess With Texas
June 29, 2015
David Dayen
The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods
After the Supreme Court's fair-housing ruling, will the government finally do something about it?
June 25, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Clarence Thomas Says Black NBA Players Give SCOTUS a Reason to Gut Anti-Discrimination Law
February 25, 2015
Cristian Farias
Why Is It So Hard to Prove a Civil Rights Crime?
The Zimmerman case reveals the limits of the law—and foreshadows the Ferguson outcome
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