A woman walks past newly renovated housing units in the Colonial Village public housing complex in Norwalk. Credit: Ryan Caron King / Connecticut Public Housing segregation, both racial and economic, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The stately brick buildings once called Willert Park Courts stand fenced off and choked in ivy, moldering behind graffiti and ...

Equal access to housing is a civil right, but systemic racism within our housing institutions has long kept communities of color from accessing fair housing opportunities. The Fair Housing Act with ...

An eight-foot fence that separated blacks and whites since 1939 in the Blue Grass-Aspendale Housing Project comes down January 30, 1974, in Lexington, KY. Taking down the barbed wire are, left to ...

A decision could be reached in the coming months in a long-running lawsuit that links Chicago landmark districts to racial segregation and a lack of affordable housing. The city of Chicago in late ...

It’s been more than 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, yet many Americans still live in racially segregated neighborhoods. How come? In “Freedom to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- For many Americans, homeownership means independence, but the path to that goal isn't paved the same for everyone. Decades after the passage of the U.S. Fair Housing Act, ...

Artist Enox Shabbaz begins a street mural in the Beman Triangle area of Middletown. The project has since been modified to comprise new crosswalks. Credit: Sacha Armstrong Crockett In 1847 Middletown ...

For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks ...

In the late 1940s Black community members were relegated to substandard housing in certain parts of Louisville. Cheri Bryant Hamilton, longtime Chickasaw resident, former city council member and ...