Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination

by John Yinger

Book Overview

"Yinger writes as if four decades of protest and progressive legislation have barely altered the terrain upon which minority Americans struggle for equality. He's right....Yinger figures that housing discrimination costs black homebuyers $5.7 billion and Hispanic homebuyers $3.4 billion every three years." --Washington Monthly Nearly three decades after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871549670
• ISBN13: 9780871549679
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.7"