Because this kind of discrimination is broadly accepted, the federal government’s largest housing program for the poor doesn’t work like it should. “It was the same old Baltimore County. But without them, many other proposals for how to leverage housing to alleviate poverty don’t work as well. It has a long racially charged history of obstructing fair housing (in 1970, HUD famously withheld sewer funding from Baltimore County over its support for residential segregation). Washington, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco have such laws (although landlords still flout them).

Source: Washington Post August 03, 2016 16:14 UTC