Fair housing? 

A little head-scratcher for the Fourth of July: It seems odd, in the New York City of 2007, to think about Fair Housing. Everyone is priced out of Manhattan apartments, black, brown and white alike, and it is tough to imagine that, if a purple customer came falling out of the heavens with a suitcase full of cash, brokers wouldn't trip all over themselves to serve him.

But we didn't always live in today's utopia, where the majority is color-blinded by greed. A mere generation ago, people experienced housing discrimination based on the color of their skin.

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