Housing
Overview
Because so many of peoples’ experiences are determined by the community in which they live, residential segregation is one of the primary means by which racial inequities are created and maintained in contemporary society. Groups enter the work on housing from multiple points. Some historically and currently work on improving access to home ownership among groups previously shutout from the housing market. Some work on residential integration by race/ethnicity, some work on equalizing the consequences of residential segregation – that is, by improving community safety, education, access to health care, etc. And some groups work on civic and political engagement and power shifts. The resources in this section document the various legal and quasi-legal methods by which segregated neighborhoods are created and maintained. They also provide examples of groups working in some of the different ways described above, as well as in comprehensive approaches.
Key sites
- Poverty and Race Research Action Council
- The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Right to the City
Research
- Long Island Fair Housing: A State of Inequity
- Subprime Loans, Foreclosure, and the Credit Crisis: What Happened and Why? - A Primer
- Fair Credit and Fair Housing in the Wake of the Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis: Findings from the Kirwan Institute Initiative - The Future of Fair Housing
- A Structural Racism Lens on Subprime Closures and Vacant Properties
- Housing and Neighborhood Preferences of African Americans on Long Island 2012 Survey Research Report
- Baltimore Metro Area Analysis Of Impediments To Fair Housing Choice
- Segregated Spaces, Risky Places: The Effects of Racial Segregation on Health Inequalities
- The Racial Origins Of Zoning In American Cities
- Housing Discrimination Against Racial And Ethnic Minorities 2012
- How Many Gentrification Critics Are Actually Gentrifiers Themselves?
- Transportation Policy is Housing Policy
- Underwater America: How the So-Called Housing Recovery is Bypassing Many Communities
- The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles
- Historical Shift from Explicit to Implicit Policies Affecting Housing Segregation in Eastern MA
- Home Mortgage and Small Business Lending in Baltimore and Surrounding Areas
- Where Does the American Dream Live?
- Segregated by Design
- Race and Policy: 50 Years after the Fair Housing Act
- Mapping Segregation in Washington DC
- VIDEO: Housing Segregation In Everything
Practices
- Mobile Justice: Why Race Matters
- New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
- Separate and Unequal in D.C.: A Story of Race, Class and Washington Politics
- Expanding Choice: Practical Strategies for Building a Successful Housing Mobility Program
- Anti-Eviction Planning Mapping
- The Cost of Segregation: The Steep Costs all of us in the Chicago Region Pay by Living so Seperately from Each Other
- What About Housing? A Policy Toolkit for Inclusive Growth
- Anti-Eviction Mapping
- State Preemption of Local Equitable Housing Policies
- Roots, Race, Place: A History of Racial Exclusionary Housing the San Francisco Bay Area
- Fair Chance Ordinances: An Advocate's Toolkit
