Full Description
Evidence for the negative effects of segregation and concentrated poverty in America's cities now exists in abundance; poor and underrepresented communities in segregated urban housing markets suffer diminished outcomes in education, economic mobility, political participation, and physical and psychological health. Though many of the aggravating factors underlying this inequity have persisted or even grown worse in recent decades, the level of energy and attention devoted to them by local and national policymakers has ebbed significantly from that which inspired the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
Marking 50 years since the passage of the Fair Housing and Civil Rights Acts, Facing Segregation both builds on and departs from two generations of scholarship on urban development and inequality. Authors provide historical context for patterns of segregation in the United States and present arguments for bold new policy actions ranging from local innovations to national initiatives. The volume refocuses attention on achievable solutions by providing not only an overview of this timely subject, but a roadmap forward as the twenty-first century assesses the successes and failures of the housing policies inherited from the twentieth. Rather than introducing new theories or empirical data sets describing the urban landscape, Metzger and Webber have gathered the field's first collection of prescriptions for what ought to be done.
Contents
Part I: Facing the Causes and Consequences of Segregation
Chapter 1: Segregation: A Threat to Americans' Shared Goals
Molly W. Metzger and Henry S. Webber
Chapter 2: De Facto Segregation: A National Myth
Richard Rothstein
Chapter 3: The Siting Dilemma: Race and the Location of Federal Housing Projects
Lance Freeman
Chapter 4: The Enduring Significance of Segregation
Jason Q. Purnell
Part II: The Policy Agenda
Chapter 5: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and the Inclusive Communities Project Case: Bringing the Fair Housing Act into the Twenty-First Century
Philip D. Tegeler
Chapter 6: Enabling More Families with Housing Vouchers to Access Higher-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Barbara Sard
Chapter 7: The Community Reinvestment Act as a Catalyst for Integration and an Antidote to Concentrated Poverty
John Taylor and Josh Silver
Chapter 8: Promoting Poverty Deconcentration and Racial Desegregation Through Mixed-Income Development
Mark L. Joseph
Chapter 9: Market-Savvy Housing and Community Development Policy: Grappling with the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
Todd Swanstrom
Chapter 10: Financing Affordability: Tax Increment Financing and the Potential for Concentrated Reinvestment
Sarah L. Coffin
Chapter 11: Beyond Education Triage: Building Brain Regimes in Metropolitan America
William F. Tate IV
Chapter 12: Concluding Thoughts on an Agenda for Solving Segregation
Henry S. Webber and Molly W. Metzger
