The Dream Revisited: The Future of the Fair Housing Act
Launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year, The Dream Revisited is a slow debate on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. It is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center’s year-long Integration Research Initiative.
The thirteenth discussion in The Dream Revisited debates the significance of disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act, in light of the Supreme Court’s deliberation in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project. Essays in this discussion include:
- "As We Celebrate Fair Housing Month the Fair Housing Act is at Risk" by Alan Jenkins, Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda.
- "The Unintended Consequences of Fair Housing Laws" by Richard A. Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, The Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law (Emeritus), and Senior Lecturer at The University of Chicago, and the Director of the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University.
- "Let's Stick With What Works" by Dennis Parker, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program.
- "An Aging Population Relies on the Fair Housing Act for Independence and Community Living" by Susan Ann Silverstein, Senior Attorney with the AARP Foundation Litigation.
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The Dream Revisited is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center's Integration Research Initiative and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. If you have any comments or suggestions for future discussions, send us an email to fccommunications@nyu.com.
