Executive Order 11063 Outlawing Federal Housing Discrimination

On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy outlawed housing discrimination in federally owned or financed housing with his signature on Executive Order 11063. This was the completion of a campaign promise Kennedy had made in 1960. The official title of the order was Leadership and Coordination of Fair Housing in Federal Programs: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. While he did fulfill this promise it did not change the perception, and frankly reality, that JFK was rather weak on civil rights regardless of his promises and public commitment. Although this order banned segregation in federally funded housing; it did continue in state-funded and of course private housing. It wasn’t until the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that racial discrimination was completely outlawed within the United States 

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https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/fair_housing_and_related_law