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Equality of opportunity in housing is a key issue in social justice in Britain today. To the extent that it patterns an individual's educational, social and economic development, housing constitutes a crucial battleground in the fight against racial discrimination. Housing, Race and Law is the first publication to examine the law in relation to issues of housing and race in both the private and public sector. It places these issues in the broader context of the development of anti-discrimination legislation, outlines the current legislation and examines its impact in relation to owner occupation, public housing, housing association tenancies and private lets. Throughout, the book emphasizes the practical impact of the various legislative provisions, and discusses the responses of the principle institutions from government departments and relevant professions to the Commission for Racial Equality and the Community Relations Councils (or Racial Equality Councils). It argues a case for a new approach to appraisal, review and enforcement. By collating material from a wide variety of sources, the author provides an original assessment of the Race Relations Act of 1976 and its impact on housing which, in its provision of cogent material and arguments for reforms, is designed to be of value to practitioners, academics and those concerned with racial discrimination.
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Housing, Race and Law
Housing, Race and Law The British Experience
Martin MacEwen
Routledge London and New York
First published 1991 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor and Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1991 Martin MacEwen All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data MacEwen, Martin Housing, Race and Law : The British Experience. 1. Great Britain. Ethnic minorities. Housing. Law I. Title 344.1046363599 ISBN 0-203-03242-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-19119-6 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-00063-7 (Print Edition) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data MacEwen, Martin, 1943– Housing, Race, and Law : The British Experience/Martin MacEwen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-415-00063-7 1. Discrimination in housing – Law and legislation – Great Britain. I. Title. KD1184.M33 1990 344.41′0636351–dc20 [344.104636351] 90-8377 CIP
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CONTENTS Tables and figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I - The framework Chapter one: Theoretical perspectives Chapter two: Facts and figures Chapter three: Discrimination and the law Chapter four: Acts I and II: the Race Relations Acts 1965 and 1968 Chapter five: Act III: the Race Relations Act 1976
viii x xii 1 10 25 34 51 75
Part II - The law in practice Chapter six: Urban planning Chapter seven: Homelessness Chapter eight: Public housing: admission and allocation Chapter nine: Housing associations Chapter ten: Private housing
102 135 153 180 202
Part III - Evaluation and reconstruction Chapter eleven: Institutional responses Chapter twelve: Anti-discrimination legislation: towards an evaluation Chapter thirteen: Anti-discrimination policy: towards reconstruction References Name index Case index General inde