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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"fair housing"”.
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The Boston Fair Housing Commission : a case study in the local implementation of the federal Fair Housing Act
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Social marketing : the case of Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Fair housing in Boston: a role for private organizations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P.
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Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans
… of Washington Abstract Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans Lisa Carolyn Davidson Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Research Professor Emeritus Fredrick Wagner Department of Urban Design and Planning This thesis examines …
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Fair Housing Goes Nuclear: In Suburban Chicago the Cold War Meets a Civil Rights Protest in 1967
… the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCDH) immediately protested the approval of the Weston site. They opposed the site choice because of a documented history of racial housing discrimination in and around Weston. In 1967, the NCDH hoped to utilize the Cold War scientific …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… failing to meet its Affirmatively Further Fair Housing obligation for Community Development Block Grant funds received between 2000 and 2006. While Westchester County argued that it had an impressive affordable housing development record, ADC claimed that the County had not done the …
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Addressing Inefficiencies and Reflecting the Desires of Low-Income Housing Stakeholders: Recommendations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Deploy a Simplified, Developer-Driven Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan Filing Process, as well as Review Proposals for Adaptive Policy Mechanisms
The Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan (AFHMP) is a set of regulations passed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to govern the sharing of information about applications for low-income rental housing in accordance to the Fair Housing Act. Collaborators of this work at …
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Demystifying the database: the state's crafting of Cape Town's housing allocation tool and its technologies
The City of Cape Town's integrated housing database is used to manage the allocation of state housing across the city. It is a technical intervention in a contested and politicised context. On the surface, it appears to be an effective state tool that determines eligibility for housing assistance, …
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A study of Proposition 14 of the 1964 California general election
… claim that Proposition 14 went beyond repeal of "fair housing" legislation. This could have been achieved through an initiative referendum. Instead, by constitutional amendment, the measure instituted the right to discriminate in selling or renting residential property. This was an open attack …
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… on different outcomes – access to rental housing, property values, and school enrollments – the desire to understand how policy influences the composition of an urban ecosystem provides the link. A particular emphasis is placed on housing, because housing is simultaneously and a basic …
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Auditing race and gender discrimination in online housing markets
… have developed rigorous practices for offline housing audits to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the online world lacks similar practices. In this work we lay out principles for developing an online fairness audit and demonstrate two examples; gender- and race-based discrimination in online …
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Implementing a Digital Common Application for Affordable Housing in Massachusetts
The need for affordable housing in Massachusetts is immense, with fragmented housing application processes further compounding barriers for low-income residents to access stable housing. To address these challenges, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) …
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Building equity : the evolution and efficacy of Montgomery County's moderately priced dwelling unit legislation
… of three policy streams-land use and density, fair housing and desegregation, and workforce housing and economic development-that coalesced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Advocates for affordable housing appealed to widely held values in their effort to pass the MPDU legislation. The law …
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Three Essays on the Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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Three Essays On The Housing Market
<p>My dissertation comprises three essays on the housing market. The first two chapters analyze the housing market using the hedonic model. Chapter 1 estimates a semi-nonparametric hedonic regression that provides evidence for the change of bidding and sorting for job-access over time in Buffalo …
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Narrating the Politics of Urban Development in “New Era” Boston
… and much less by way of an equitable housing market. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, mass mobilizations for racial justice, a progressive turn within the City Council, and the inauguration of the city’s first Black and first woman mayor, recent public discourse reflects a new …
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Rental Housing Search and Occupancy Experiences of Veterans with Disabilities
The search for rental housing can be a very stressful and complex process for veterans with service-connected disabilities. This process requires the evaluation of different factors, such as one's credit score, housing costs in relation to income and employment status, space requirements, type of …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… massive health violations by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and police shootings in Chicago, as well as Chicago gun violence in general pertaining to urban black poor individuals. In each of these spaces, the element lead is the crucial agent of disability and repression, and a …
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Bristol Place Neighborhood Plan: urban renewal in post-Kelo fiscal policy space
… provide a historical analysis of affordable housing issues and mid-century urban renewal in Champaign, and use an inductive instrumental case study method to investigate the continued unevenly racial outcomes of stated-initiated forced residential displacement as embodied by the …
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Public Regulation through Private Litigation: The Regulatory Power of Private Lawsuits and the American Bureaucracy
Embedded within the notably constrained American state, how can regulatory agencies ensure that enforcement goals are met? Some analyses suggest that this is not so easily done; rather, constraints on agencies' formal administrative powers are said to threaten their capacity for effective …