Executive Order
Executive Order 11063
Directed executive departments and agencies to prevent discrimination in federally assisted housing and created a federal administrative framework for equal opportunity in housing before the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Year
1962
Impact
Positive
Status
Active
Party
Democratic Party
Era
Civil Rights Era
Impact Context
Expanded federal responsibility for confronting discrimination in federally assisted housing, though coverage and enforcement remained incomplete and depended heavily on executive follow-through.
What This Policy Did
Expanded federal responsibility for confronting discrimination in federally assisted housing, though coverage and enforcement remained incomplete and depended heavily on executive follow-through.
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Sources
National Archives • Government • Nov 20, 1962
Official codified text of the order and its implementation structure.
National Archives • Government • Dec 31, 1980
Shows later amendments and transfer of housing-related fair-opportunity functions to HUD.