The One-Way Street of Integration : Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities / Edward G. Goetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetz, Edward G., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--United States.

Discrimination in housing.

Low-income housing--United States.

Low-income housing.

Housing subsidies--United States.

Housing subsidies.

Community development, Urban--United States.

Community development, Urban.

Housing policy--United States.

Housing policy.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities, and by tracing the tensions involved in housing integration and policy across fifty years and myriad developments he shows why.Goetz's core argument, in a provocative book that shows today's debates about housing, mobility, and race have deep roots, is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather than integrated housing projects that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO REGIONAL EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE

1. THE INTEGRATION IMPERATIVE

2. AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

3. THE "HOLLOW PROSPECT" OF INTEGRATION

4. THE THREE STATIONS OF FAIR HOUSING SPATIAL STRATEGY

5. NEW ISSUES, UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS, AND THE WIDENING DEBATE

Conclusion: EVERYONE DESERVES TO LIVE IN AN OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD

Notes

Sources

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781501748479

1501748475

9781501716706

1501716700

OCLC:

1000298050