ERIC Number: ED286951
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Dec
Pages: 74
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Jefferson County and Louisville Have Most Segregated Public Housing in Kentucky 1985: Desegregation Accelerates at Most Authorities between July 1984 and July 1985.
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville.
This report examines the state of integration at 22 public housing authorities in Kentucky. Family residency data showed that the public housing authorities of Jefferson County and Louisville were the first and second most segregated authorities in Kentucky as of July 1985. Overall, however, desegregation at Kentucky's public housing authorities accelerated between 1984 and 1985. The following steps are suggested to eliminate segregation: (1) authorities should adopt and implement voluntary affirmative action desegregation plans; (2) those authorities operating under affirmative action desegregation plans should recommit themselves to abiding by their desegregation obligations; (3) any new housing project should open with racial occupancy equal to the authority-wide black/white family ratio; and (4) housing authorities planning rehabilitation/remodeling work should move a racially balanced tenant population into the project once construction is completed. The report concludes with three appendices providing housing authority population statistics and one containing a model voluntary affirmative action housing program description. References are included. (PS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Plans, Housing Discrimination, Housing Management Aides, Low Rent Housing, Planned Communities, Public Housing, Racial Composition, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, 832 Capital Plaza Tower, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville.
Identifiers - Location: Kentucky
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