The economics of Housing & Homelessness

Motivation

The Fourteenth Amendment

Chicago Housing Authority

Chicago City Council

Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

• "Barred Federal funding from discriminating programs"

Federal Government

Restrict Development Locations

The city council can approve/disapprove of CHA's real estate purchases

King's Focus on Chicago

• Why does King focus on "Open Housing" instead of campaigning against Slums? (pg. 37)