nt and Targeting Social Need initiatives were intended to be set up in the 90’s to act as monitoring and job creation schemes. Neither of these reached the goals they were hoped to achieve. PAFT received no consideration and hopes for reparation for past discriminations came to nothing when its function became reduced to ‘equality’ and TSN was sidelined with no real aims. Neither monitor the religion or gender of staff.The allocation of public housing has also been an area subject to accusations of discrimination. In the 1960’s civil rights movements began in protest against the lack of civil and housing rights of the Catholics of Northern Ireland. In June 1966, a nationalist councillor Austin Currie squatted in a house in the Tyrone village of Caledon to oppose the treatment the Irish people were receiving. Though it was meant to be a peaceful protest there was a violent reaction. In 1969 The Cameron Report examined the causes of the civil disorders which started on 5 October 1968 in Londonderry. They found that the discrimination in the allocation of housing, together with lack of housing provision was among the main grievances of the Catholic population. At the time, housing was an important political issue, in addition to being of great socio-economic importance - sub-tenants were not given a vote in local government elections. The Northern Ireland Housing Executive was established in 1971 in order to examine the accusations of discrimination and mismanagement surrounding the allocation of housing in Northern Ireland. Following the discovery in 1974 that 20% of the housing were inadequate for human habitation the NIHE were given the task of remedying this situation and ensuring a new system by which housing would be fairly allocated. A more recent survey puts the percentage of housing unsuitable for human habitation in Northern Ireland at 8%. A 1990 social attitudes survey states that 11% of Catholics in Nor...
