Kerner, Kaiser, and Douglas Commissions

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/A-Decent-Home-the-Report.pdf

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf?file=1&force=1

The essence of legal reasoning is to apply settled principles to new situations

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If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn’t it also prohibited in public housing?

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Those in charge could not use good faith as an excuse for declining to implement federal constitutional rights.«

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The Chicago Housing Authority thereby made the policies of the aldermen its own and deprived opponents of the opportunity for public debate. But even if the CHA had not participated in the informal elimination of white sites, it was bound by the Constitution not to build on sites chosen by some other agency on the basis of race.

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HUD’s approval and funding of a system it knew to be racially discriminatory amounted to discriminatory conduct of its own

• The state legislature enacted a law that gave the City Council power to approve/disapprove of the Chicago Housing Authority’s real estate purchases.