Fair housing laws failed to dismantle entrenched urban segregation.

Evidence

There can be no doubt that segregation persists despite the enactment of fair housing laws. At least twenty-one metropolitan areas remain hypersegregated. By one estimate, approximately ninety percent of all Black metropolitan residents live in “high” or “very high” segregation while only ten percent live in “moderate” segregation and almost none live in “low” segregation. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Direct support for a racecraft-adjacent point: legal remedies presumed discrimination was individual and overt, missing structural production of racialized space. Plausibly parallels Choudhury’s claim that anti-discrimination law cannot capture Islamophobia. — connects to: Law punished those who integrated housing rather than those who attacked them. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 475; Outlawing housing discrimination did not erase its accumulated vestiges. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1231; Anti-discrimination laws did not reset artificially created housing wealth gaps — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1365 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Outlawing housing discrimination did not erase its accumulated vestiges. #corroborates (1.00) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1231
• Anti-discrimination laws did not reset artificially created housing wealth gaps #corroborates (1.00) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1365
• The Fair Housing Act outlawed discrimination but not its lingering effects #corroborates (1.00)