Moving toward integration : the past and future of fair housing / Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva, Jonathan M. Zasloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sander, Richard H., author.

Kucheva, Yana A., author.

Zasloff, Jonathan M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--United States--History.

Discrimination in housing.

Black people--Segregation--United States--History.

Black people.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 587 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and political conversations have come to believe that the battle to integrate America's cities cannot be won. Richard Sander, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff write that the pessimism surrounding desegregation in housing arises from an inadequate understanding of how segregation has evolved and how policy interventions have already set many metropolitan areas on the path to integration. Scholars have debated for decades whether America's fair housing laws are effective. Moving toward Integration provides the most definitive account to date of how those laws were shaped and implemented and why they had a much larger impact in some parts of the country than others. It uses fresh evidence and better analytic tools to show when factors like exclusionary zoning and income differences between blacks and whites pose substantial obstacles to broad integration, and when they do not. Through its interdisciplinary approach and use of rich new data sources, Moving toward Integration offers the first comprehensive analysis of American housing segregation. It explains why racial segregation has been resilient even in an increasingly diverse and tolerant society, and it demonstrates how public policy can align with demographic trends to achieve broad housing integration within a generation.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Note on Census Sources

Introduction

PART I. The Core of the American Dilemma

1. Southern Black Urbanism and the Origins of Fair Housing, 1865–1917

2. The Ghetto, 1918–1940

3. Shelley V. Kraemer and the Rise of Blockbusting, 1940–1959

4. Public Housing, Federal Urban Policies, and the Underclass, 1934–1962

5. The Creation of Fair Housing Statutes, 1959–1968

PART II. The Impact of Fair Housing Law and the Critical Decade, 1970–1980

6. Implementation of the Fair Housing Act, 1968–1975

7. Black Pioneers in the 1970s and the Segregation Puzzle

8. Tipping versus Integration: A Delicate Balance?

9. To Leap a Moving Wall: The Inversion of the Dual Housing Market, 1970–1980

PART III. The Second Generation of Fair Housing, 1975–2000

10. Exclusionary Zoning and Structural Segregation

11. Fair Lending, Redlining, and Black Homeownership, 1970–2000

12. The Ethnic Mosaic: Shifting from Two Races to Many

13. The Expansion of Federal Fair Housing Law, 1980–1995

14. The Slowing of Neighborhood Racial Transition, 1980–2010

15. The Reformation of Assisted Housing Programs, 1968–2012

PART IV. The Twenty-First Century

16. The Effects of Segregation

17. The Effect of Diversity on Integration

18. Gentrification and the Evolution of White Demand

19. The Mortgage Crisis and the Great Recession

20. Implications of Urban Integration and Segregation in the Twenty-First Century

PART V. Solutions

21. A Portfolio of Integration Strategies

22. Race to the Top

23. The Politics of Integration

Appendix

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-558) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9780674919877

0674919874

9780674919891

0674919890

OCLC:

1030304411