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To the Point

Fight against Housing Discrimination Gets a New Lease on Life

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act ended overt racial discrimination, but its promise of also ending segregation has not been fulfilled, and there is still unequal access to schools, parks and upward mobility. We hear what President Obama proposes to do and what it could mean for local neighborhoods.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:08.0

Does your zip code determine your future?

0:14.1

Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:18.1

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

0:20.6

It's been 50 years

0:21.6

since the Federal Fair Housing Act outlawed discrimination and promised an end to segregation. Since then,

0:28.0

federal subsidies for affordable housing have focused on poor neighborhoods with the effect of expanding

0:33.1

racial and ethnic ghettos. The Obama administration now wants cities to build affordable housing in more desirable neighborhoods.

0:41.2

The goal is desegregation, but opponents denounce it as forced integration.

0:46.5

They predict resistance to what they call social engineering.

0:50.3

Today's talking point, drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, Mexico's Master of Tunnels.

0:57.4

First, here's the news.

1:00.3

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1:04.0

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1:08.7

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1:15.2

Support for To The Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International

1:21.1

Program Fund. Hello again, Mormon, I'll be back with To the Point. In 1968, the Fair Housing Act

1:26.4

ended overt racial discrimination, but its promise of also ending segregation has not been fulfilled, and there is still unequal access to schools and parks and upward mobility. We'll hear what President Obama proposes to do and what it could mean for local neighborhoods. Today's talking point, a tunnel with ventilation,

1:45.3

lighting, oxygen tanks, and a roof high enough for Mexico's most powerful drug kingpin to stand

1:50.9

up in. We'll hear about Saturday's prison escape by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. First, this news

1:57.0

update, after days of wrangling in Brussels, a Euro summit of 19 nations and creditors,

2:02.6

and the Greek Prime Minister, have agreed to another bailout.

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