Unusual History of a Fair Housing Advocate

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have done any house-hunting, you could be familiar with the work of Joseph Eichler. In Marin, there are several neighborhoods featuring his mid-century modern architectural style homes. Eichler, a 20th century real estate developer, rose to prominence between 1949 and 1966, when his company, Eichler

Dwell Magazine on Eichler and Neighborhood Integration

I recently ran across this article from the June 2020 issue of Dwell outlining how visionary builder Joseph Eichler fought housing discrimination in his developments. Eichler was not unfamiliar with housing discrimination; at the time, there were developers of suburban communities who refused to sell homes to the Jewish middle class. He believed, however, that if