The Obama administration is set to resuscitate the Fair Housing Act of 1968’s mandate to forcibly reduce segregation, in a bid to racially integrate neighborhoods, making it hard for cities to disobey the law.

“The Obama administration will announce long-awaited rules designed to repair the law’s unfulfilled promise and promote the kind of racially integrated neighborhoods that have long eluded deeply segregated cities like Chicago and Baltimore. The new rules, a top demand of civil-rights groups, will require cities and towns all over the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and to publicly report, every three to five years, the results. Communities will also have to set goals, which will be tracked over time, for how they will further reduce segregation.”

Be prepared for some unhinged opposition from Republicans, who could care less about the “little people.” They are already running stir crazy over Affirmative Action.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.