A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation’s persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated?
The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss the nature of and policy responses to residential segregation. Essays scrutinize the factors that sustain segregation, including persistent barriers to mobility and complex neighborhood preferences, and its consequences from health to home finance and from policing to politics. They debate how actively and in what ways the government should intervene in housing markets to foster integration. The book features timely analyses of issues such as school integration, mixed income housing, and responses to gentrification from a diversity of viewpoints. A probing examination of a deeply rooted problem, The Dream Revisited offers pressing insights into the changing face of urban inequality.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Meaning of Segregation
- Introduction
- Discussion 1: Why Integration?
- Discussion 2: Comparative Perspectives on Segregation
- Discussion 3: Neighborhood Income Segregation
- Discussion 4: Suburban Poverty and Segregation
- Discussion 5: The Relationship Between Residential and School Segregation
- Part II: Causes of Contemporary Racial Segregation
- Introduction
- Discussion 6: Ending Segregation: Our Progress Today
- Discussion 7: The Stubborn Persistence of Racial Segregation
- Discussion 8: Implicit Bias and Segregation
- Part III: Consequences of Segregation
- Introduction
- Discussion 9: Explaining Ferguson Through Place and Race
- Discussion 10: Segregation and Law Enforcement
- Discussion 11: Segregation and Health
- Discussion 12: Segregation and the Financial Crisis
- Discussion 13: Segregation and Politics
- Part IV: Policy Implications
- Introduction
- Discussion 14: The Future of the Fair Housing Act
- Discussion 15: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
- Discussion 16: Balancing Investments in People and Place
- Discussion 17: Addressing Neighborhood Disinvestment
- Discussion 18: Place-Based Affirmative Action
- Discussion 19: Selecting Neighborhoods for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments
- Discussion 20: Public Housing and Deconcentrating Poverty
- Discussion 21: Creating Mixed-Income Housing Through Inclusionary Zoning
- Discussion 22: Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher Program
- Discussion 23: Making Vouchers More Mobile
- Discussion 24: Gentrification and the Promise of Integration
- Discussion 25: Community Preferences and Fair Housing
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
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