A lawsuit filed by the Connecticut Fair Housing Center alleges that a Litchfield County housing authority deliberately discriminates against blacks and Latinos. WNPR’s Jeff Cohen reports.
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a deliberate attempt to stop black and Latino families from renting in its communities…
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Would seem on the face of evidence presented here to be an exaggeration at best. In any case the most important mechanism the social welfare state uses to “perpetuate segregation” is the residency requirement in public education. That, coupled with land use regs like floor space minima, lot size minima, and exclusion of multiple-family units. Heck. The explicit purpose of zoning is “segregation” of “uses.”