ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the allegations of discrimination in housing and employment since the focus on how power was used rather than on how power was achieved. Allegations of discrimination in housing have a long history in Northern Ireland but they first came to more than local prominence in the civil rights campaign in the 1960s. Almost all allegations of discrimination in housing ceased when the Northern Ireland Housing Executive was set up in 1972 to take responsibility from both the local authorities and the Housing Trust. Perhaps the clearest examples of job discrimination came among the nonmanual employees of local authorities. Professor Rose examined the allocation of local authority houses between Catholics and Protestants within six separate income groups. In five out of the six income categories the proportion of Catholics in local authority housing was higher than for Protestants.
