The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration (Center for American Progress)

By William L. Taylor, Dianne M. Piché, Crystal Rosario, and Joseph D. Rich (Center for American Progress)

Report of the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights with the assistance of the Center for American Progress – Philip Tegeler, Executive Director of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, explains why equal opportunity housing programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of the Treasury are not helping families move from higher-poverty segregated neighborhoods to less segregated areas.