In January 1966, Polikoff, a partner at a Chicago law firm, decided to work part-time pro bono on a lawsuit charging the Chicago Housing Authority, and later, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with racial discrimination. In Chicago, new public housing projects were invariably built in black ghettoes. High rise projects were concentrating […]
Richard Kahlenberg
Richard D. Kahlenberg is the author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See and a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.