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Suburbs under Siege - Race, Space, and Audacious Judges (Hardcover)
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Suburbs under Siege - Race, Space, and Audacious Judges (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all
people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right
to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary
should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons, American
courts have generally failed to question local zoning regulations
that trap the urban poor in the squalor of inner cities, away from
decent housing and jobs in the suburbs. No U.S. Supreme Court case,
for instance, has confronted exclusionary zoning rules, as Brown v.
Board of Education once attacked school segregation. Instead,
judges at all levels have most often reinforced the residential
segregation that may well destroy American society. In this
provocative book on the landmark Mount Laurel cases, Haar shows how
the N.J. state judiciary broke out of this pattern of judicial
behavior. These courageous, innovative judges attracted nationwide
attention by challenging the forces of affluence that ruled the
suburbs (and the legislature) of their state. Furthermore, they
based their reasoning on the N.J. state constitution in order to
protect their rulings from invalidation by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the early 1970s, when the cases began, the plaintiffs, Ethel
Lawrence and her daughter Thomasene, were barely making ends meet
in the Philadelphia suburb of Mount Laurel, a town where their
African-American ancestors had lived for seven generations. The
Lawrences' dream was to live in a Mount Laurel garden apartment
planned by a grassroots reform group as affordable housing: in
their way stood a typical minimum acreage zoning ordinance. The
eventual court victory of the Lawrences and their young public
interest attorneys inspired other N.J. suits and a process of
remediation that continues to this day, as judges, experts (special
masters), the state legislature, and other citizens work to carry
out the Mount Laurel principles. Haar's book is a bold attack on
conventional doctrines of the separation of powers limitations on
the judicial branch and a plea that judges across the country
assume their proper responsibilities for fair housing before it is
too late. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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