About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

5 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 184 (1970)
Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Racial Discrimination in Urban Renewal Program. Arrington v. City of Fairfield (5th Cir. 1969)

handle is hein.journals/hcrcl5 and id is 190 raw text is: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-EQUAL PROTECTION-RACIAL DISCRIMI- NATION IN URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM. Arrington v. City of Fair- field1 Recent urban renewal experience indicates that programs for relocation of site residents have usually served to compound rather than alleviate many social and economic problems relating to the housing of the poor.2 For example, when an urban renewal project redevelops a blighted or slum area, the supply of low-rent dwellings available to poor people resid- ing in the renewal area decreases, and it is often necessary for those dis- placed to seek relocation housing far from their familiar communities. Economically depressed black ghetto areas are often the first targets for urban renewal programs, which have become known in many black com- munities as Negro Removal programs. For blacks, racial discrimination aggravates the already severe problem of finding comparable relocation housing outside of the renewal area.3 Dislocated tenants will be forced to crowd into whatever available housing their low incomes will allow, and new slums of even greater proportions will arise outside of the renewal area.4 The landmark decision in Norwalk CORE v. Norwalk Redevelopment Agency 5 opened the door to judicial review of urban renewal relocation plans.6 It established that residents of an urban renewal project have stand- ing under federal law to assert that a relocation plan falls short of statu- tory and constitutional standards. Standing was granted on two indepen- dent theories. First, with the aid of Section 10 of the Administrative ' 414 F.2d 687 (5th Cir. 1969). 2 M. ANDERSON, THE FEDERAL BULLDOZER, 62 (1964). 3 Hartman, The Housing of Relocated Families, in URBAN RENEWAL: THE RECORD AND THE CONTROVERSY 293, 311 (J. Wilson ed. 1966). 4 In summarizing the plight of the black displacee, one commentator has said: In the final analysis any relocation plan is dependent on an available supply of housing, both public and private. To recognize the fact that relocation must inevitably accelerate competition for an already inadequate supply of housing, particularly for housing at levels that the bulk of relocatees can afford, and then to proceed with relocation of families is to fly in the face of reason and reality. This becomes doubly serious when Negroes are being relocated, since the competi- tion for housing is most serious for the Negro, and further, a situation is created largely by public action that results in pressures upon the social fabric without an assumption of responsibility for coping with the effects of these pressures. Meltzer, Relocation of Families Displaced in Urban Redevelopment: Experience in Chicago, in URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS AND PRACTICES 432 (C. Woodbury ed. 1953). s 395 F.2d 920 (2d Cir. 1968), noted in 82 HARV. L. REV. 691 (1969) and 4 HARV. CIV. RIGHTS-CIV. LIB. L. REV. 176 (1968). 6 See generally Note, Family Relocation in Urban Renewal, 82 HARV. L. REV. 864 (1969); Note, Judicial Review of Displacee Relocation in Urban Renewal, 77 YALE L.J. 966 (1968).

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most