Interracial Housing

Archive Report

The Government and Residential Segregation

Effects of the President's Housing Order

First Effects of the executive order issued last November by President Kennedy to ban racial discrimination in federally aided housing are expected to become apparent when the 1963 construction season gets well under way in the spring. There has been speculation that the order will cause builders to cut back new housing starts. The volume of residential construction may depend to some extent on the strength of Negro demand for housing in suburban areas where some of the old barriers to sales and rentals to non-whites can presumably be surmounted as a result of the President's order.

A month after the order was issued, the Housing and Home Finance Agency reported that a new study showed ...

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