LAW-3285: Real Estate Discrimination

This course will examine impediments to real property ownership, occupancy, and access in America from the Post-Reconstruction era to present day. It will examine the use of racial zoning by municipalities; Jim Crow laws; the use of racially restrictive covenants by private individuals, realtors, developers, and the Fair Housing Administration; racial steering; eminent domain; redlining; easements; defeasible fees; race nuisance; and digital steering to impede ownership, occupancy, and access. This course will explore whether historic types of real property discrimination have been eliminated or whether they have morphed into new mechanisms for discrimination.