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You are here: Home / Publications / CERD Housing Report: Residential Segregation and Housing Discrimination in the United States (January 2008) 

CERD Housing Report: Residential Segregation and Housing Discrimination in the United States (January 2008) 

January 1, 2008 by

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Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Washington, DC National Fair Housing Alliance, Washington, DC National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, DC NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Washington, DC Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, NC Center for Social Inclusion, New York, NY Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Columbus, OH Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN Center for Civil Rights, University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, NC ACLU of Maryland Fair Housing Project, Baltimore, MD Inclusive Communities Project, Dallas, TX New Jersey Regional Coalition, Cherry Hill, NJ Fair Share Housing Center, Cherry Hill, NJ

Excerpt: Residential segregation is an insidious and persistent fact of American life. Discrimination on the basis of race, while on the decline according to some estimates, continues to pervade nearly every aspect of the housing market in the United States. This shadow report evaluates the current state of housing discrimination and segregation and the United States government’s failure to fulfill its obligations related to housing under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“CERD”).

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