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...perpetuating segregation by building low-cost apartment complexes for blacks almost exclusively in inner-city black neighborhoods. The plaintiffs subsequently argued that the housing units should have been built instead in the white-dominated wards of Chicago or in the suburbs that lie just outside the city. In reply, HUD claimed that since the suburbs were not accused of practicing segregation, the Federal Government had no business integrating them, and thus interfering with the affairs of local government...
...basic points led the court to decide otherwise. The court noted that HUD had violated the blacks' basic constitutional rights in the first place by helping to confine them to segregated housing within Chicago's city limits. The housing plan, said the Justices, should have included the entire Chicago metropolitan area instead of just the city. Ordering HUD to put low-cost housing in the suburbs would not restrict the freedom of local governments, the court ruled further, since the suburbs would still be able to exercise all their powers regarding zoning requirements and other land-use restrictions...
...relief to the city's blacks, the Justices left another large escape hatch. They ruled that while the district court has the power to put blacks in the suburbs, it does not have an absolute obligation to do so. In theory, therefore, the district court could recommend that HUD support a new low-income housing program within the boundaries of Chicago rather than in the suburbs-although that seems an unlikely outcome...
...country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased, but I'm not elated," said Dr. Robert Weaver, Lyndon Johnson's HUD Secretary and the first black to hold a Cabinet post...
...Weaver's restraint was shared by Attorney Alexander Polikoff, who argued the case for the blacks. "The change is only potential," he warned. Before they could get similar relief, blacks in other cities would have to bring suit and prove on a case-by-case basis that HUD had violated their basic constitutional rights. "The real hope," said Polikoff, "is that HUD will take the cue from the court and, on a voluntary basis, pass out their dollars to developers in metropolitan areas." The resulting housing projects, he continued, should be accessible to people from the inner city...