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	Illegal Segregation Pervades Nation's Subsidized Housing Dallas Morning News "Despite federal laws prohibiting racial discrimination, the nearly 10 million residents of federally assisted housing are mostly segregated by race, with whites faring much better than blacks and Hispanics."


	Bush Proclaims April 2003 as National Fair Housing Month Read the proclamation, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.


	Media Reports on Overall Trends in Residential Segregation Links compiled by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparitive Urban and Regional Research.


	Failed Policies Keep Minorities in 'Hidden City' Dallas Morning News "Congress within the last 11 years has appropriated more than $223 billion for grants intended as incentives to open up the suburbs" ... "But racial discrimination, politics, poor program design and inadequate enforcement of federal regulations have maintained the walls around the nation's inner cities, The Dallas Morning News found during a 14-month study of federal housing policies."


	2004 Fair Housing Trends Report National Fair Housing Alliance "More than 35 years after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, at least 3.7 million fair housing violations still occur annually" [Full Report].


	Race and Age Discrimination in Lending Documented The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s reports that "after controlling for credit risk, the report finds that high cost lending surges as the number of minority and elderly residents increase in a neighborhood."


	Residential Segregation in New York City GothamGazette..com "Educational apartheid is both a product of residential apartheid and a stimulus for it. Whites protect their exclusive residential enclaves to protect their privileged schools."

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	Fair Housing Laws Background on related federal laws and presidential orders.


	Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) At the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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