Court Opinion

ID: 9460286
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:46:26.675782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:33.458844
License: Public Domain

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The Louisville Housing Authority’s admission policy which is attacked by appellants seems to me to be bad social planning. I do not, however, believe that it is outside the broad grant of authority established by Congress in the applicable federal housing legislation (42 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq. (1970) ). Nor do I believe that the United States Con*810stitution requires Congress in attacking a great social problem like that of providing adequate shelter to those Americans unable to afford decent housing to wait until it can do the whole job at once. Nor do I think the Constitution requires Congress to start at any particular point in the spectrum of need.