#housing segregation

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Fatphobia is rooted in racism

Omgnwho said that

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Protests In 140 Cities Across The Nation -- How Did We Get Here?

As we witness protests across the U.S. in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, it’s important to understand how we got here.

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So in Seattle, the researchers put a twist on the housing voucher system. For this experiment, a random subset of people receiving vouchers for the first time would get more than just the rental subsidy. They would also be given information on which neighborhoods promise the most opportunity for their kids, based on the research data. They’d also be assigned “navigators” whose job it was to walk them through the apartment application process, and receive additional financial assistance with down payments if necessary. It’s a simple intervention — and, more than a year in, it looks like it yielded big results. The experiment found that the additional support raised the share of families moving to high-opportunity neighborhoods from 14 percent to 54 percent. “This is the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention,” Chetty said in an email. It’s also an experiment that has left participants with an overwhelmingly positive experience with a government bureaucracy for once. “People say that Seattleites don’t smile at you, or look up to say hi to you, but these people were really, really nice,” Nikki Manlapaz, a mother who moved from a low- to high-opportunity neighborhood through the program. “They just took all the worry and stress away from me.” If it can be replicated at scale, the experimenters may have hit on a powerful new tool for dismantling residential segregation in the United States.

“America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution.“ from Vox

[npr]

Housing segregation is in everything. But to understand the root of this issue, you have to look at the government-backed policies that created the housing disparities we see today.

Gene Demby explains how these policies came to be, and what effect they've had on schools, health, family wealth and policing.

For more on this story, check out this week's episode of the Code Switch podcast.

Video: NPR

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Is Notoriously Segregated Chicago Becoming Integrated? 🎧

On paper, Chicago is more integrated than it was a few decades ago. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story.

Length: 12 mins. Date: 30 July 2017

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When we desegregated other areas of life, it was very easy to see how to remedy it. If you abolish segregation on buses, people can sit anywhere the next day. If you abolish segregation in restaurants, you can go to any restaurant the next day. Even if you abolish segregation in schools, children can go to their neighborhood schools regardless of its majority race—if it’s enforced. But if you abolish segregation in housing, which we have a constitutional obligation to do because of the way it was created, thinking about how to go about doing that is very difficult. People can’t pick up and move to a middle-class suburb the next day. We’ve avoided thinking about it and avoided the history because it’s a difficult. But unless we remember this history, we aren’t going to have the kind of national conversation that is necessary to begin to fashion remedies.

An interview with Richard Rothstein on The Color of Law.

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This is why the Roman Empire liked grids. They were colonizers without cars.

In the modern day North America, when the suburbs were created, they were created by design to be for white, middle-class car owners. In the past, they could not even have sidewalks.

And the outright banned the grid pattern with short blocks that makes a place walkable and easy for people less likely to have cars.

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“We have a myth today that the 'ghettos' in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls ‘de-facto’ — just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle class neighborhoods, or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because there was white flight,” [Richard] Rothstein tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “It was not the unintended effect of benign policies, it was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government and that’s the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies,” he says.

Richard Rothstein, Historian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How Our Government Created The 'Ghettos'