The Dream Revisited

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.

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Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil

Contenu

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