The dream revisited : contemporary debates about housing, segregation, and opportunity in the twenty-first century / edited by Ingrid Ellen and Justin Steil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellen, Ingrid, Editor.

Steil, Justin P., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--United States.

Discrimination in housing.

African Americans--Housing.

African Americans.

Minorities--Housing--United States.

Minorities.

Segregation--United States.

Segregation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Dream Revisited

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THE MEANING OF SEGREGATION

Introduction

DISCUSSION 1. WHY INTEGRATION?

The Problem of Integration

Focus on the Costs of Segregation for All

In Search of Integration: Beyond Black and White

Making Our Assumptions About Integration Explicit

DISCUSSION 2. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON SEGREGATION

Reflection on Segregation and Integration: A Swedish Perspective

Reflections on a Comparative Perspective Within the United States

Reflections on Race and Equity: A Structural Perspective

Why Not Compare?

DISCUSSION 3. NEIGHBORHOOD INCOME SEGREGATION

No Neighborhood Is an Island

Spread the Wealth, or Spread the Wealthy?

The Durable Architecture of Segregation

Keep Concentrated Poverty at the Forefront

DISCUSSION 4. SUBURBAN POVERTY AND SEGREGATION

Segregation, Suburbs, and the Future of Fair Housing

The Changing Geography of Poverty Demands Changes to Safety Net Provision

Debtors' Prisons and Discriminatory Policing: The New Tools of Racial Segregation

Delineating Race and Poverty

DISCUSSION 5. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND SCHOOL SEGREGATION

Economic Segregation in Schools

Why Economic School Segregation Matters

Race Remains the American Dilemma

Talking About Diversity

PART II. CAUSES OF CONTEMPORARY RACIAL SEGREGATION

DISCUSSION 6. ENDING SEGREGATION: OUR PROGRESS TODAY

Why Haven't We Made More Progress in Reducing Segregation?

How Do We Reconcile Americans' Increasing Interest in Residential Diversity with Persistent Racial Segregation?

Economic Segregation of Schools Is Key to Discouraging Integration

Exclusionary Zoning and Fear: A Developer's Perspective

DISCUSSION 7. THE STUBBORN PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL SEGREGATION

Residential Mobility by Whites Maintains Segregation Despite Recent Changes

Sticky Preferences: Racial Exclusion's Staying Power

Start with the Micro, Move to the Macro

Persistent Acts of Housing Discrimination Perpetuate Segregation

DISCUSSION 8. IMPLICIT BIAS AND SEGREGATION

Implicit Bias and Segregation: Facing the Enemy

Focus on Explicit Disparities Instead of Implicit Biases

What Do We See When We Look in the Mirror?

Implicit Bias, Intergroup Contact, and Debiasing: Considering Neighborhood Dynamics

PART III. CONSEQUENCES OF SEGREGATION

DISCUSSION 9. EXPLAINING FERGUSON THROUGH PLACE AND RACE

The Ferguson Moment: Race and Place

What Does Obama's Election Tell Us About "The Ferguson Moment"?

Five Concrete Steps Toward a St. Louis Comeback

Race, Justice, and the Matters of Black Lives

DISCUSSION 10. SEGREGATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Policing and Segregation

The Dynamics of Policing and Segregation by Race and Class

The New Policing, Crime Control, and Harm Reduction

High-Volume Stops and Violence Prevention

DISCUSSION 11. SEGREGATION AND HEALTH

Health in the Segregated City

Segregated Health Systems

Why Aren't Segregation's Effects on Health Larger?

Residential Segregation and Health: A Hypothesis Still in Search of Convincing Evidence

DISCUSSION 12. SEGREGATION AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Segregation Exacerbated the Great Recession and Hindered Our Policy Response

The Connection Between Segregation, Predatory Lending, and Black Wealth

The Contemporary Relevance of Decades-Old Fair Lending Laws

Segregation May Hurt Minorities, but Its Role in the Foreclosure Crisis Is Far Less Clear

DISCUSSION 13. SEGREGATION AND POLITICS

Politics in a Racially Segregated Nation

The Enduring Legacy of Our Separate and Unequal Geography

Linking Multiracial Coalitions and Class-Based Appeals

A Nation Divided Still: How a Vote for Trump Says More About the Voter Than About the Candidate Himself

PART IV POLICY IMPLICATIONS

DISCUSSION 14. THE FUTURE OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT

As We Celebrate Fair Housing Month, the Fair Housing Act Is at Risk

The Unintended Consequences of Fair Housing Laws

Let's Stick with What Works

An Aging Population Relies on the Fair Housing Act for Independence and Community Living

DISCUSSION 15. AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING

HUD's New AFFH Rule: The Importance of the Ground Game

A Call to Action to Embrace and Enforce the AFFH Rule

The Need for a Balanced Approach to Fair Housing

The Right Target for Fair Housing Advocacy

DISCUSSION 16. BALANCING INVESTMENTS IN PEOPLE AND PLACE

Creating Opportunity for Minority and Low-Income Families

Holistic Place-Based Investments

A Case for Choice: Looking at Connecticut

Prepare for Divergent Metropolitan Futures

DISCUSSION 17. ADDRESSING NEIGHBORHOOD DISINVESTMENT

Move Up or Out? Confronting Compounded Deprivation

We Need a New National Urban Policy

Leave No Neighborhood Behind

Jobs: The Missing Piece

DISCUSSION 18. PLACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Place Not Race: Reforming Affirmative Action to Redress Neighborhood Inequality

Reforming Affirmative Action at Universities Misses Deeper Problem

Keeping the American Federal State Active: The Imperative of "Race-Sensitive" Policy

Race and Place

DISCUSSION 19. SELECTING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT DEVELOPMENTS

Tax Credits Can and Should Build Both Homes and Opportunity

Yes, and . . . Don't Abandon Poor Residents of Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Research Can and Should Play a Role in More Effective Use of LIHTC Resources

Building More Than Housing

DISCUSSION 20. PUBLIC HOUSING AND DECONCENTRATING POVERTY

From Public Housing to Vouchers: No Easy Pathway Out of Poverty

Housing Policy Is a Necessary but Insufficient Response to Concentrated Poverty

Effects of Moving to Opportunity: Both Statistically and Socially Significant

Moving (Both People and Housing) to Opportunity

DISCUSSION 21. CREATING MIXED-INCOME HOUSING THROUGH INCLUSIONARY ZONING

There Are Worse Things in Housing Policy Than Poor Doors

Inclusionary Housing Delivers Diverse Neighborhoods and a Better New York

Separate but Equal Redux: Resolving and Transcending the Poor-Door Conundrum

Housing Priorities: Quality Is More Important Than the Number of Entrances

DISCUSSION 22. NEIGHBORHOODS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM

Children and Housing Vouchers

Why Don't More Voucher Holders Escape Poor Neighborhoods?

Children and Housing Vouchers: A Policy Maker's Perspective

Children and Housing Vouchers: A Practitioner's Perspective

DISCUSSION 23. MAKING VOUCHERS MORE MOBILE

Expanding Neighborhood Choices for Voucher Tenants Using Small Area Fair Market Rents

Housing Choice Shouldn't Be at the Expense of Other Low-Income Renters

Small Area FMRs: A Jump-Start to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

Supporting and Protecting Low-Income Residents Are Essential to Ensuring Successful SAFMR Implementation

DISCUSSION 24. GENTRIFICATION AND THE PROMISE OF INTEGRATION

Transforming Gentrification Into Integration

Creating Integrated Communities Is More Than Preventing Displacement

Choice and Gentrification

It Will Take More Than a Voucher

DISCUSSION 25. COMMUNITY PREFERENCES AND FAIR HOUSING

An Inclusionary Tool Created by Low-Income Communities for Low-Income Communities

Community Preferences Discriminate

The Community-Preference Policy: An Unnecessary Barrier to Minorities' Housing Rights

Local Preferences Require Local Analysis

CONCLUSION

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231545044

0231545045

OCLC:

1079002544