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Chapter 1. The long history of unfair housing / Francesca Russello Ammon and Wendell E. Pritchett -- Chapter 2. Sociology, segregation, and the Fair Housing Act / Justin P. Steil and Camille Z. Charles -- Chapter 3. Parallel pathways of reform : fair public schooling and housing for black citizens / Akira Drake Rodriguez and Rand Quinn -- Chapter 4. The economic importance of fair housing / Vincent J. Reina and Raphael Bostic -- Chapter 5. The Fair Housing Act's original sin : administrative discretion and the persistence of segregation / Nestor M. Davidson and Eduardo M. Peñalver -- Chapter 6. A queer and intersectional approach to fair housing / Amy Hillier and Devin Michelle Bunten.

"Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, was the most robust piece of federal legislation aimed at stopping the systemic and severe discriminatory practices that defined the housing market at that time and through the present.This legislation has been crucial to the fight against housing discrimination but has by no means eliminated it. The compounding inequities of historic housing discrimination, and it's persistence to this day, present a serious challenge to the future of American society. This book makes the case that fair housing is a critical issue not only for those directly affected by it, but also for society more broadly, and that meaningful government intervention is required to achieve fair housing just as much now as fifty years ago"--

A generation has passed since the legislative victories of the 1960s extending civil rights protection: twenty-five years since the passage of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964,1 twenty-four years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and twenty-one years since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As we enter the second generation of civil rights enforcement under new Presidential leadership it is important to assess the state of civil rights, to examine the experience of first generation enforcement and the promises of the second generation. The state of civil rights in the area of housing is a mixture of both frustration and hope. Unlike the extraordinary advances in integrating public accommodations, the workplace, and the political system, the Nation's housing has been largely ignored. Although an increasing number of blacks are present in America's suburbs and predominantly white neighborhoods, the stark pattern of racial residential segregation has worsened. America is more segregated--physically separated by race--today than at any time in its history.

The South Carolina Human Affairs Commission is a state government agency that enforces the South Carolina Fair Housing Law. If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you should contact the Commission.

This report is categorized into five categories: (I) Introduction, (II) Housing Practices in Which Discrimination is Prohibited, (III) Familial Discrimination and Housing for Older Persons, (IV) Discrimination Based on Handicap, (V) Enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.