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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
- INTRODUCTION 1
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PART I. THE MEANING OF SEGREGATION
- Introduction 21
-
DISCUSSION 1. WHY INTEGRATION?
- The Problem of Integration 29
- Focus on the Costs of Segregation for All 32
- In Search of Integration: Beyond Black and White 35
- Making Our Assumptions About Integration Explicit 40
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DISCUSSION 2. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON SEGREGATION
- Reflection on Segregation and Integration: A Swedish Perspective 44
- Reflections on a Comparative Perspective Within the United States 47
- Reflections on Race and Equity: A Structural Perspective 50
- Why Not Compare? 52
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DISCUSSION 3. NEIGHBORHOOD INCOME SEGREGATION
- No Neighborhood Is an Island 56
- Spread the Wealth, or Spread the Wealthy? 59
- The Durable Architecture of Segregation 61
- Keep Concentrated Poverty at the Forefront 63
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DISCUSSION 4. SUBURBAN POVERTY AND SEGREGATION
- Segregation, Suburbs, and the Future of Fair Housing 66
- The Changing Geography of Poverty Demands Changes to Safety Net Provision 68
- Debtors’ Prisons and Discriminatory Policing: The New Tools of Racial Segregation 70
- Delineating Race and Poverty 72
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DISCUSSION 5. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND SCHOOL SEGREGATION
- Economic Segregation in Schools 76
- Why Economic School Segregation Matters 78
- Race Remains the American Dilemma 80
- Talking About Diversity 85
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PART II. CAUSES OF CONTEMPORARY RACIAL SEGREGATION
- Introduction 89
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DISCUSSION 6. ENDING SEGREGATION: OUR PROGRESS TODAY
- Why Haven’t We Made More Progress in Reducing Segregation? 97
- How Do We Reconcile Americans’ Increasing Interest in Residential Diversity with Persistent Racial Segregation? 99
- Economic Segregation of Schools Is Key to Discouraging Integration 102
- Exclusionary Zoning and Fear: A Developer’s Perspective 104
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DISCUSSION 7. THE STUBBORN PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL SEGREGATION
- Residential Mobility by Whites Maintains Segregation Despite Recent Changes 107
- Sticky Preferences: Racial Exclusion’s Staying Power 109
- Start with the Micro, Move to the Macro 112
- Persistent Acts of Housing Discrimination Perpetuate Segregation 114
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DISCUSSION 8. IMPLICIT BIAS AND SEGREGATION
- Implicit Bias and Segregation: Facing the Enemy 120
- Focus on Explicit Disparities Instead of Implicit Biases 123
- What Do We See When We Look in the Mirror? 125
- Implicit Bias, Intergroup Contact, and Debiasing: Considering Neighborhood Dynamics 128
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PART III. CONSEQUENCES OF SEGREGATION
- Introduction 133
-
DISCUSSION 9. EXPLAINING FERGUSON THROUGH PLACE AND RACE
- The Ferguson Moment: Race and Place 141
- What Does Obama’s Election Tell Us About “The Ferguson Moment”? 143
- Five Concrete Steps Toward a St. Louis Comeback 145
- Race, Justice, and the Matters of Black Lives 149
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DISCUSSION 10. SEGREGATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Policing and Segregation 153
- The Dynamics of Policing and Segregation by Race and Class 155
- The New Policing, Crime Control, and Harm Reduction 157
- High-Volume Stops and Violence Prevention 159
-
DISCUSSION 11. SEGREGATION AND HEALTH
- Health in the Segregated City 165
- Segregated Health Systems 168
- Why Aren’t Segregation’s Effects on Health Larger? 170
- Residential Segregation and Health: A Hypothesis Still in Search of Convincing Evidence 171
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DISCUSSION 12. SEGREGATION AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
- Segregation Exacerbated the Great Recession and Hindered Our Policy Response 179
- The Connection Between Segregation, Predatory Lending, and Black Wealth 181
- The Contemporary Relevance of Decades-Old Fair Lending Laws 183
- Segregation May Hurt Minorities, but Its Role in the Foreclosure Crisis Is Far Less Clear 186
-
DISCUSSION 13. SEGREGATION AND POLITICS
- Politics in a Racially Segregated Nation 190
- The Enduring Legacy of Our Separate and Unequal Geography 193
- Linking Multiracial Coalitions and Class-Based Appeals 195
- A Nation Divided Still: How a Vote for Trump Says More About the Voter Than About the Candidate Himself 196
-
PART IV POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Introduction 199
-
DISCUSSION 14. THE FUTURE OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT
- As We Celebrate Fair Housing Month, the Fair Housing Act Is at Risk 211
- The Unintended Consequences of Fair Housing Laws 213
- Let’s Stick with What Works 215
- An Aging Population Relies on the Fair Housing Act for Independence and Community Living 217
-
DISCUSSION 15. AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING
- HUD’s New AFFH Rule: The Importance of the Ground Game 220
- A Call to Action to Embrace and Enforce the AFFH Rule 222
- The Need for a Balanced Approach to Fair Housing 225
- The Right Target for Fair Housing Advocacy 227
-
DISCUSSION 16. BALANCING INVESTMENTS IN PEOPLE AND PLACE
- Creating Opportunity for Minority and Low-Income Families 230
- Holistic Place-Based Investments 233
- A Case for Choice: Looking at Connecticut 235
- Prepare for Divergent Metropolitan Futures 238
-
DISCUSSION 17. ADDRESSING NEIGHBORHOOD DISINVESTMENT
- Move Up or Out? Confronting Compounded Deprivation 242
- We Need a New National Urban Policy 246
- Leave No Neighborhood Behind 248
- Jobs: The Missing Piece 250
-
DISCUSSION 18. PLACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- Place Not Race: Reforming Affirmative Action to Redress Neighborhood Inequality 255
- Reforming Affirmative Action at Universities Misses Deeper Problem 257
- Keeping the American Federal State Active: The Imperative of “Race-Sensitive” Policy 259
- Race and Place 261
-
DISCUSSION 19. SELECTING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT DEVELOPMENTS
- Tax Credits Can and Should Build Both Homes and Opportunity 264
- Yes, and . . . Don’t Abandon Poor Residents of Gentrifying Neighborhoods 267
- Research Can and Should Play a Role in More Effective Use of LIHTC Resources 269
- Building More Than Housing 272
-
DISCUSSION 20. PUBLIC HOUSING AND DECONCENTRATING POVERTY
- From Public Housing to Vouchers: No Easy Pathway Out of Poverty 275
- Housing Policy Is a Necessary but Insufficient Response to Concentrated Poverty 278
- Effects of Moving to Opportunity: Both Statistically and Socially Significant 280
- Moving (Both People and Housing) to Opportunity 282
-
DISCUSSION 21. CREATING MIXED-INCOME HOUSING THROUGH INCLUSIONARY ZONING
- There Are Worse Things in Housing Policy Than Poor Doors 287
- Inclusionary Housing Delivers Diverse Neighborhoods and a Better New York 290
- Separate but Equal Redux: Resolving and Transcending the Poor-Door Conundrum 292
- Housing Priorities: Quality Is More Important Than the Number of Entrances 295
-
DISCUSSION 22. NEIGHBORHOODS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM
- Children and Housing Vouchers 298
- Why Don’t More Voucher Holders Escape Poor Neighborhoods? 303
- Children and Housing Vouchers: A Policy Maker’s Perspective 306
- Children and Housing Vouchers: A Practitioner’s Perspective 308
-
DISCUSSION 23. MAKING VOUCHERS MORE MOBILE
- Expanding Neighborhood Choices for Voucher Tenants Using Small Area Fair Market Rents 314
- Housing Choice Shouldn’t Be at the Expense of Other Low-Income Renters 316
- Small Area FMRs: A Jump-Start to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 317
- Supporting and Protecting Low-Income Residents Are Essential to Ensuring Successful SAFMR Implementation 319
-
DISCUSSION 24. GENTRIFICATION AND THE PROMISE OF INTEGRATION
- Transforming Gentrification Into Integration 322
- Creating Integrated Communities Is More Than Preventing Displacement 327
- Choice and Gentrification 329
- It Will Take More Than a Voucher 330
-
DISCUSSION 25. COMMUNITY PREFERENCES AND FAIR HOUSING
- An Inclusionary Tool Created by Low-Income Communities for Low-Income Communities 335
- Community Preferences Discriminate 337
- The Community-Preference Policy: An Unnecessary Barrier to Minorities’ Housing Rights 338
- Local Preferences Require Local Analysis 341
- CONCLUSION 345
- CONTRIBUTORS 349
- INDEX 357
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
- INTRODUCTION 1
-
PART I. THE MEANING OF SEGREGATION
- Introduction 21
-
DISCUSSION 1. WHY INTEGRATION?
- The Problem of Integration 29
- Focus on the Costs of Segregation for All 32
- In Search of Integration: Beyond Black and White 35
- Making Our Assumptions About Integration Explicit 40
-
DISCUSSION 2. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON SEGREGATION
- Reflection on Segregation and Integration: A Swedish Perspective 44
- Reflections on a Comparative Perspective Within the United States 47
- Reflections on Race and Equity: A Structural Perspective 50
- Why Not Compare? 52
-
DISCUSSION 3. NEIGHBORHOOD INCOME SEGREGATION
- No Neighborhood Is an Island 56
- Spread the Wealth, or Spread the Wealthy? 59
- The Durable Architecture of Segregation 61
- Keep Concentrated Poverty at the Forefront 63
-
DISCUSSION 4. SUBURBAN POVERTY AND SEGREGATION
- Segregation, Suburbs, and the Future of Fair Housing 66
- The Changing Geography of Poverty Demands Changes to Safety Net Provision 68
- Debtors’ Prisons and Discriminatory Policing: The New Tools of Racial Segregation 70
- Delineating Race and Poverty 72
-
DISCUSSION 5. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND SCHOOL SEGREGATION
- Economic Segregation in Schools 76
- Why Economic School Segregation Matters 78
- Race Remains the American Dilemma 80
- Talking About Diversity 85
-
PART II. CAUSES OF CONTEMPORARY RACIAL SEGREGATION
- Introduction 89
-
DISCUSSION 6. ENDING SEGREGATION: OUR PROGRESS TODAY
- Why Haven’t We Made More Progress in Reducing Segregation? 97
- How Do We Reconcile Americans’ Increasing Interest in Residential Diversity with Persistent Racial Segregation? 99
- Economic Segregation of Schools Is Key to Discouraging Integration 102
- Exclusionary Zoning and Fear: A Developer’s Perspective 104
-
DISCUSSION 7. THE STUBBORN PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL SEGREGATION
- Residential Mobility by Whites Maintains Segregation Despite Recent Changes 107
- Sticky Preferences: Racial Exclusion’s Staying Power 109
- Start with the Micro, Move to the Macro 112
- Persistent Acts of Housing Discrimination Perpetuate Segregation 114
-
DISCUSSION 8. IMPLICIT BIAS AND SEGREGATION
- Implicit Bias and Segregation: Facing the Enemy 120
- Focus on Explicit Disparities Instead of Implicit Biases 123
- What Do We See When We Look in the Mirror? 125
- Implicit Bias, Intergroup Contact, and Debiasing: Considering Neighborhood Dynamics 128
-
PART III. CONSEQUENCES OF SEGREGATION
- Introduction 133
-
DISCUSSION 9. EXPLAINING FERGUSON THROUGH PLACE AND RACE
- The Ferguson Moment: Race and Place 141
- What Does Obama’s Election Tell Us About “The Ferguson Moment”? 143
- Five Concrete Steps Toward a St. Louis Comeback 145
- Race, Justice, and the Matters of Black Lives 149
-
DISCUSSION 10. SEGREGATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Policing and Segregation 153
- The Dynamics of Policing and Segregation by Race and Class 155
- The New Policing, Crime Control, and Harm Reduction 157
- High-Volume Stops and Violence Prevention 159
-
DISCUSSION 11. SEGREGATION AND HEALTH
- Health in the Segregated City 165
- Segregated Health Systems 168
- Why Aren’t Segregation’s Effects on Health Larger? 170
- Residential Segregation and Health: A Hypothesis Still in Search of Convincing Evidence 171
-
DISCUSSION 12. SEGREGATION AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
- Segregation Exacerbated the Great Recession and Hindered Our Policy Response 179
- The Connection Between Segregation, Predatory Lending, and Black Wealth 181
- The Contemporary Relevance of Decades-Old Fair Lending Laws 183
- Segregation May Hurt Minorities, but Its Role in the Foreclosure Crisis Is Far Less Clear 186
-
DISCUSSION 13. SEGREGATION AND POLITICS
- Politics in a Racially Segregated Nation 190
- The Enduring Legacy of Our Separate and Unequal Geography 193
- Linking Multiracial Coalitions and Class-Based Appeals 195
- A Nation Divided Still: How a Vote for Trump Says More About the Voter Than About the Candidate Himself 196
-
PART IV POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Introduction 199
-
DISCUSSION 14. THE FUTURE OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT
- As We Celebrate Fair Housing Month, the Fair Housing Act Is at Risk 211
- The Unintended Consequences of Fair Housing Laws 213
- Let’s Stick with What Works 215
- An Aging Population Relies on the Fair Housing Act for Independence and Community Living 217
-
DISCUSSION 15. AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING
- HUD’s New AFFH Rule: The Importance of the Ground Game 220
- A Call to Action to Embrace and Enforce the AFFH Rule 222
- The Need for a Balanced Approach to Fair Housing 225
- The Right Target for Fair Housing Advocacy 227
-
DISCUSSION 16. BALANCING INVESTMENTS IN PEOPLE AND PLACE
- Creating Opportunity for Minority and Low-Income Families 230
- Holistic Place-Based Investments 233
- A Case for Choice: Looking at Connecticut 235
- Prepare for Divergent Metropolitan Futures 238
-
DISCUSSION 17. ADDRESSING NEIGHBORHOOD DISINVESTMENT
- Move Up or Out? Confronting Compounded Deprivation 242
- We Need a New National Urban Policy 246
- Leave No Neighborhood Behind 248
- Jobs: The Missing Piece 250
-
DISCUSSION 18. PLACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- Place Not Race: Reforming Affirmative Action to Redress Neighborhood Inequality 255
- Reforming Affirmative Action at Universities Misses Deeper Problem 257
- Keeping the American Federal State Active: The Imperative of “Race-Sensitive” Policy 259
- Race and Place 261
-
DISCUSSION 19. SELECTING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT DEVELOPMENTS
- Tax Credits Can and Should Build Both Homes and Opportunity 264
- Yes, and . . . Don’t Abandon Poor Residents of Gentrifying Neighborhoods 267
- Research Can and Should Play a Role in More Effective Use of LIHTC Resources 269
- Building More Than Housing 272
-
DISCUSSION 20. PUBLIC HOUSING AND DECONCENTRATING POVERTY
- From Public Housing to Vouchers: No Easy Pathway Out of Poverty 275
- Housing Policy Is a Necessary but Insufficient Response to Concentrated Poverty 278
- Effects of Moving to Opportunity: Both Statistically and Socially Significant 280
- Moving (Both People and Housing) to Opportunity 282
-
DISCUSSION 21. CREATING MIXED-INCOME HOUSING THROUGH INCLUSIONARY ZONING
- There Are Worse Things in Housing Policy Than Poor Doors 287
- Inclusionary Housing Delivers Diverse Neighborhoods and a Better New York 290
- Separate but Equal Redux: Resolving and Transcending the Poor-Door Conundrum 292
- Housing Priorities: Quality Is More Important Than the Number of Entrances 295
-
DISCUSSION 22. NEIGHBORHOODS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM
- Children and Housing Vouchers 298
- Why Don’t More Voucher Holders Escape Poor Neighborhoods? 303
- Children and Housing Vouchers: A Policy Maker’s Perspective 306
- Children and Housing Vouchers: A Practitioner’s Perspective 308
-
DISCUSSION 23. MAKING VOUCHERS MORE MOBILE
- Expanding Neighborhood Choices for Voucher Tenants Using Small Area Fair Market Rents 314
- Housing Choice Shouldn’t Be at the Expense of Other Low-Income Renters 316
- Small Area FMRs: A Jump-Start to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing 317
- Supporting and Protecting Low-Income Residents Are Essential to Ensuring Successful SAFMR Implementation 319
-
DISCUSSION 24. GENTRIFICATION AND THE PROMISE OF INTEGRATION
- Transforming Gentrification Into Integration 322
- Creating Integrated Communities Is More Than Preventing Displacement 327
- Choice and Gentrification 329
- It Will Take More Than a Voucher 330
-
DISCUSSION 25. COMMUNITY PREFERENCES AND FAIR HOUSING
- An Inclusionary Tool Created by Low-Income Communities for Low-Income Communities 335
- Community Preferences Discriminate 337
- The Community-Preference Policy: An Unnecessary Barrier to Minorities’ Housing Rights 338
- Local Preferences Require Local Analysis 341
- CONCLUSION 345
- CONTRIBUTORS 349
- INDEX 357