Fair Housing Act Pros And Cons

Salutations. Before you today are Abbie Villani, Clarissa Wahyudi, Ruisha Yang, and Megan Yu. In today’s modern world and society, people are discriminated against due to simple differences in aspects, such as race, color, and religion. Nothing is being done to prevent this discrimination, so we suggest putting a law into place, which would be the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act is an act that permits landlords from discriminating against minorities. It also keeps other tenants from physically harming or using racial slurs in public towards these minorities.
One of the reasons the Fair Housing Act should be placed into law is to keep the African American population safe from harm. An article, “Housing and Race” states, “Sometimes, the
They suffered constant verbal abuse and the threat of physical violence. Their property was damaged by hurled bricks and explosives were thrown through their windows. African Americans endured danger and ostracism in the neighborhoods where they were simply seeking a decent place to live.” Physically, African American families were damaged, and sometimes, their property was as well. The people already living in these neighborhoods would terrorize their new neighbors, disapproving of them due to their race. White neighbors would threaten their neighbors by thrusting rocks and lobbing explosives through African American families’ windows; by doing this, they would galvanize their neighbors into leaving, and would cause innocent people to lose the homes they bought through hard work. Emotionally, African Americans would be cursed at and would be called unpleasant and inappropriate names; at the end of the day, that damaged their mental wellbeing. It was also humiliating to be escorted around a neighborhood, just because of the color of your skin. In addition, they would be shunned and left out of special events and gatherings; they would be excluded from the
Those who often disagreed with the act being passed are most commonly those of the privileged class. For instance, after World War II, those who lived in the Black Belt gradually lessened. Those who previously lived there had migrated out of the Black Belt and into the surrounding communities, which had better housing and a more livable atmosphere. There was an increasingly large amount of African Americans moving into the middle class, thus more of them were finally able to get out of the shabby living quarters. Because of this, they were able to move into better neighborhoods and overall became a fortunate change of serendipity. However, those who inhabited the neighborhoods before the African Americans moved in would get enraged that these citizens were moving into their living areas. Such nefarious people would then vilify and perform pernicious actions towards the African Americans who moved in. In contrast, this is not always the case. For example, in A Raisin in the Sun, a book written by Lorraine Hansberry, Karl Linder, of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, visits the Younger family and states, "And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background. I want you to believe me when I tell you that race