Housing Discrimination Booklet Published
Diocesan Press Service. March 6, 1964 [XIX-13]
A 24-page booklet "Crisis on Elm Street", designed "to help property owners understand and cope with the universal, immediate issues of discrimination in housing" was published March 2 by the National Council.
The only material of its kind currently available, the booklet discusses the issue of housing discrimination from a Christian standpoint. It projects a hypothetical local situation in which a real estate broker, a woman seller and a Negro buyer must decide how they conscientiously can cope with the pressures against integrated housing.
Against this background the booklet factually examines the general assumptions surrounding integrated residential communities, such as a drop in property values, inundation, deterioration of Negro-owned property.
The Rev. Robert A. MacGill, editor of the booklet, emphasized that it "is not intended to 'argue the case' against discrimination; rather, it marshals the facts and presents them in such a way that readers may study the issues and make informed decisions on a local basis."
Available from The Seabury Press, the booklet is recommended for concerned neighbor- hood groups, civic associations, church and inter-church groups.