Although segregation has long been declared illegal by the laws of this country more than decades ago, de facto segregation still exist in most of the cities with significant African American presence. In my view, part of the reason that it has not been dismantled is due to the fact that HUD desires to take action when the broader sentiment leans toward desegregation and the communities that it serves need HUD to straightly enforce its policies to shape the sentiment of the general public. Those two forces reciprocate off from each other and it resulted in the unwillingness of anyone to take action. Ideas developed by pioneers such as Romney could not be enforced – the act itself, as described in the article, “took infernos in more than 125 cities following King’s assassination to force the bill’s revival.”

It’s hard to align public’s ideologies in the same frontier. The prosperous communities fear that the development of affordable housings are doing everything they can to block such development. Those people in the decision maker’s positions are reluctant to answer to dissents from the lower income bracket due to the fear of losing wealthy, powerful voter base, same as President Nixon. It’s really essentially a dead end – nothing much could be done especially under the current administration that we saw a drawback on the progress this country has made in the past. The resolution might only remain to be discovered by our future generations.