Promises Still to Keep: The Fair Housing Act Fifty Years Later

This Article considers how the Act's aims have been impeded by drastic declines in the quantity and quality of available subsidized housing, the practice of tenant blacklisting, and exclusionary zoning. Those and other barriers exist as the need for affordable housing rises, with one in three Americans struggling to get by.' Reclaiming the Act's promise depends on the coalescing of diverse and varied alliances around the unifying premise that decent housing is a human right. We can and must arrive at a collective will to assure that no one is denied a safe place to call home and all are afforded the opportunity to reap the benefits of inclusion.