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16 documents for blockbusting and steering

- Racial Integration and Community Revitalization: Applying the Fair Housing Act to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
At the heart of a debate about the future of American race, housing, and urban policy are two important lawsuits recently filed in state courts in New Jersey and Connecticut. Plaintiffs challenge the authority of their respective state housing finance agencies to fund subsidized units, with US Treasury issued tax credits, in neighborhoods of racial and social isolation. These cases seek clarification of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, parallel state fair housing provisions, the equal protection clauses of state and federal constitutions, and the meaning of the two most important state fair housing cases ever decided. Community development forces argue that the building and rebuilding of low-income housing in poor segregated neighborhoods must continue and is the only way, within the exist...

... practices, including racial steering of blacks and whites away from each other and bloc...Prohibitions on steering and blockbusting by real estate agents, practices that lead to raci...
- Vanderbilt Law Review
- Vol. 58 Nbr. 6, November 2005
- Heights Community Congress, on Behalf of Itself and all Black and White Persons Residing in Cleveland Heights, Ohio; City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Plaintiffs-Appellees (84-3427), Plaintiffs-Appellants (84-3442), v. Hilltop Realty, Inc.; Vincent Aveni; and Bruce Johanns, Defendants-Appellants (84-3427), Defendants-Appellees (84-3442)., 774 F.2d 135 (6th Cir. 1985)
... judgment that they engaged in racial steering on eight occasions, in violation of Title VIII of ... racial preference in housing); and blockbusting by mail solicitation on one occasion in violation ...
- Federal Circuits
- Rep. Barney Frank Holds a Hearing On Mortgage Foreclosures
... know, some of the old phrases like "blockbusting," those kinds of things. And I think, particularl...Victims of steering and other abusive practices need loan modification...
- Political Transcript Wire
- August 18, 2009

- Derrean Gresham and Metro Fair Housing Services, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Windrush Partners, Ltd., D/B/a Windrush Apartments, Leo Management Company, Thomas L. Williams, and Tena Mcgill, Defendants-Appellants., 730 F.2d 1417 (11th Cir. 1984)
... involving large rental complexes or steering by brokers. Metro conducts an audit by performing ... (E.D.Mich.1975) ("steering" and "blockbusting" practices of real estate agents in Detroit area c...
- Federal Circuits
- Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood, 441 U.S. 91 (1979)
..., alleging that they had violated 804 by "steering" prospective Negro homeowners toward a specified 1... real estate brokers were accused of "blockbusting," i. e., exploiting fears of racial change by dire...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Kalima Jenkins, By Her Next Friend, Kamau Agyei, Et Al., Appellants/Appellees, and American Federation of Teachers, Local 691, Appellant/Appellee, v. the State of Missouri, Et Al., Appellants/Appellees, Park Hill School District R-5 and Dr. Merlin A. Ludwig, Superintendent Thereof, Et Al., Appellees., 807 F.2d 657 (8th Cir. 1987)
... systems; and LCRA and HAKC's racial steering and siting violations. The Jenkins class further a... KCMSD is the result of steering and blockbusting practices by private real estage agents .. the Cou...
- Federal Circuits
- Unamerican tail: of segregation and multicultural education.
..., realtors used methods such as blockbusting (selling to a black person then frightening whites... of a black invasion),(219) and racial steering (steering blacks to black neighborhoods and whites...
- Albany Law Review
- Vol. 64 Nbr. 1, September 2000
- New York State Association of Realtors, Inc. and Clifford Hall, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gail S. Shaffer, Individually and as Secretary of State of the State of New York, Defendant-Appellee., 27 F.3d 834 (2nd Cir. 1994)
... for combating the evil known as "blockbusting," violates the free speech rights of realtors unde... only four complaints of racial steering in the last ten years. She provides us with no sta...
- Federal Circuits
- Broadmoor Improvement Association, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stan Weber & Associates, Inc., Duane Dees, and Vera Perett Vujnovich, Defendants-Appellees., 597 F.2d 568 (5th Cir. 1979)
... defendants engaged in a pattern of "blockbusting" activity with the intended effect of steering whi...
- Federal Circuits
- Boundaries of exclusion.
...363, 367 n.1 (1982) (defining "racial steering" as a "practice by which real estate brokers and a...1985) (discussing "blockbusting"). . (60.) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 U....
- Missouri Law Review
- Vol. 72 Nbr. 4, September 2007