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How did housing policies and practices impact African Americans and
other people of color?

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1968's Fair Housing Act

Prohibited housing discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex contentious, but swiftly voted in the wake of Martin Luther King's killing (with large concessions to compromise) Banned redlining and blockbusting Implemented by Richard Nixon, who did as little as possible. almost non-existent mostly symbolic.

When it was enacted, this compromise stripped the law's enforcement tools, since HUD and fair-housing organizations were granted the authority to investigate allegations of discrimination, but they were not given the power to issue orders of their own.

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