"The End of Federally Financed Ghettos"

"local governments can lose federal housing aid if they persist in dumping subsidized housing into depressed, racially isolated communities instead of putting more of it in integrated areas that offer better schools and job opportunities.

The fact that it has taken nearly 50 years since the law’s passage for these common-sense changes to materialize is all the more distressing, given that federally sanctioned housing discrimination has played a central role in racial ghettoization...

The new rule also provides a clear, forceful definition of the law. It explains that affirmatively furthering fair housing means “replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/the-end-of-federally-financed-ghettos.html?_r=0