The Government and Housing: Policy

<p>"Public housing" did not exist prior to the Great Depression. So it wasn't until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal that the government had the chance to impose segregation at the highest level. The effects of segregation policy in housing continue to this day in the United States. <a href="http://www.akirarodriguez.com/about">Akira Drake Rodriguez</a> and <a href="https://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/">Richard Rothstein</a> are our guides to how and why the government did it.</p>