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- Title
SEARCHING FOR FAIR HOUSING.
- Authors
FENNELL, LEE ANNE
- Abstract
There is a blind spot in the scholarly and legal treatment of housing discrimination: the racial biases of homeseekers. Search strategies routinely incorporate information about neighborhood racial composition, either as a proxy or as a direct preference. Although search heuristics can powerfully entrench and perpetuate (or, alternatively, disrupt) segregation, it is widely assumed that the way families search for homes is none of the law's business. This Article questions that assumption and, more broadly, examines how homeseeking fits into a societal conception of fair housing that assigns positive value to integration.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSING discrimination laws; FAIR Housing Act of 1968 (U.S.); TEXAS Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project (Supreme Court case); UNITED States. Dept. of Housing &; Urban Development; GRIGGS v. Duke Power Co.
- Publication
Boston University Law Review, 2017, Vol 97, Issue 2, p349
- ISSN
0006-8047
- Publication type
Article