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- Title
Bureaucratic Effectiveness and Civil Rights Enforcement.
- Authors
Bullock III, Charles S.; Wilk, Eric M.; Lamb, Charles M.
- Abstract
This article compares federal, state, and local civil rights agencies' effectiveness in enforcing the Fair Housing Act. Two factors primarily define effective enforcement: whether agencies' conciliation efforts are more likely to lead to agreements between the parties involved in complaints and whether agencies are more likely to provide remedies to complainants in cases in which there is cause to believe discrimination occurred. The analysis shows that state and local agencies are generally more effective than the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) both at conciliating complaints and at providing remedies. HUD does appear to be more effective than state and local agencies in terms of the dollar amount of monetary relief awarded when successful conciliations occur, but HUD's remedial effectiveness disappears after controlling for the likelihood of successful conciliations.
- Subjects
FAIR Housing Act of 1968 (U.S.); CONCILIATION (Civil procedure); UNITED States. Dept. of Housing &; Urban Development
- Publication
State & Local Government Review, 2017, Vol 49, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
0160-323X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160323X17730107