The Way of the No (2021)

Kimberly Binns, Washington, DC
Video runtime 5:16

How do policies of the past affect the present? What does it feel like to be denied access to housing? The Way of the No uses archival footage to depict the impact of previous eras of governmental housing policy.

Archival Sources:

National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Mapping Segregation in Washington, DC
The Brookings Institution
National Public Radio
“Segregation Northern Style,” CBS News Reports (1964)

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which was meant as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The 1968 Act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status. Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act (of 1968). (Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)