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...neighborhood of their choice, but that you would not direct the Federal Government to try to make changes in the ethnic character of the neighborhoods, does that really address itself to the issue involved? The Supreme Court has ruled that it is permissible for the Federal Government to provide low-cost housing in the suburbs...
Legal Loophole. The case was initiated in 1966 by Dorothy Gautreaux -who died in 1969-and five other blacks. They sued the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for 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...
...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...
...Supreme Court pointed out, HUD does have the power right now to support low-cost housing in the suburbs that could attract inner-city minority groups. Under a provision, known as Section 8, of the 1974 housing law, HUD subsidizes the rent paid by low-income families who live in new, renovated or existing housing. But in this fiscal year, only a small portion of the 325,000 dwelling units under the program are housing families from minority groups in predominantly white areas...
Vicious and Violent. One of the obdurate truths of political life in the '70s is that most suburbs ringing the nation's decaying cities are adamantly against low-cost housing. They fear that such housing would bring an influx of the poor, including minorities, into their communities. The town of Hempstead, L.I. (pop. more than 800,000), for example, which adjoins New York City, has been denied $758,000 in federal aid because it did not propose an acceptable low-income housing program. Admits Francis Purcell, the town's presiding supervisor: "Most of the people...