A PRRAC Publication (February 2005).
Excerpt: “Thompson v. HUD was filed in 1994 on behalf of a class of African American public housing residents. Like several other public housing desegregation cases, the Thompson case was triggered by the demolition of a high rise public housing development, with plans to locate replacement housing in neighborhoods with similar levels of segregation. And like many of the other cases, as part of the challenge to this policy of rebuilding the ghetto, the plaintiffs included a larger historical claim that the city and housing authority, with HUD approval, acted in concert over many decades to create a deeply segregated system of public housing, with project siting decisions largely driven by community opposition in white neighborhoods, in the context of a central city housing authority with limited jurisdiction over housing development outside its own city limits.”
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