The Urban Institute recently investigated how the housing market has changed 50 years after the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. As with the recent review of the Kerner Report , the Urban Institute found that things have not changed much. “We’ve made important progress since 1968, but we can’t claim to have vanquished housing discrimination or reversed its pernicious effects.” – @maturner #FHAct50 https://t.co/nA06JvGOEi — Urban Institute (@urbaninstitute) April 3, 2018 “Until 1968, landlords could legally refuse to rent to African Americans and other people of color, and homeowners and real estate agents could refuse to show or sell them homes,” wrote Margery Austin Turner in the Institute’s report. “Banks could deny mortgage loans based on a homebuyer’s race or a neighborhood’s racial mix.
