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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 responses to residential segregation.

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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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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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

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