LAW-2453 Housing in America: the Effects and Remedies of Unconstitutional Segregation
This is a seminar to examine how the government sponsored segregation through federal, state, and local policies and laws. While there is much discussion about the private market redlining and discrimination in other ways, this seminar will focus on the government sponsored and/or initiated discrimination through various policies, laws, and codes. Reflections are good and necessary in measuring progress, but in order to measure progress you must have a baseline of where to start. There is no escaping the fact that segregation in the United States has existed since the formation of housing, however, it is as much about our present as it is about the past. We will trace the origins of housing discrimination and segregation by the government which began in earnest in the early 1800s. Learning about the multiple movements to eradicate housing discrimination and segregation makes this class, and all of its participants-essential components of attempts to address the housing segregation in the United States of America. The focus of this seminar is therefore concentrated on the struggle to advance the ideas of egalitarian principles to end all forms of discrimination and segregation against those whom marginalized in housing based on their race and ethnicity. We will also focus on remedies and solutions that government can employ to eradicate segregated housing in the United States of America. The final paper can used to satisfy the Legal Writing Requirement.