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Gautreaux decision  

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  • The Gautreaux decision was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court consent decree that followed a judicial finding of illegal racial discrimination and segregation in public housing in the city of Chicago. This court order was the result of a suit filed in 1966 by Dorothy Gautreaux against the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) claiming that they had intentionally selected locations for public housing in poor, racially segregated neighborhoods—the first suit alleging racial discrimination in public housing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Gautreaux decision]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-H497JC13-H

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