economic segregation
Income-based neighborhood sorting
Economic segregation is the separation of people into different neighborhoods, schools, or social spaces based on income or wealth rather than race or ethnicity.
It occurs when housing costs, zoning laws, or other economic factors concentrate poverty in some areas while affluent residents cluster elsewhere: Economic segregation has intensified as middle-class neighborhoods disappear.
The term draws on the historical resonance of racial segregation while highlighting class-based division.
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- white flightDemographic shift toward segregated areas
- gatedHaving a barrier entrance
- povertySevere lack of resources
- income inequalityDisparity in earnings distribution
wealth · divide · wrong side of the tracks · the other side · ghetto · suburb · school district · projects · food desert · gentrification · inequality · zoning · displacement · tract · voucher · slum · housing projects · enclave
- economic inequalityincome inequality, wealth gap, income gap, pay gap, wage gap
- segregationredlining, ghetto, ghettos, steering, blockbusting
economic segregationeconomic equality
Balanced distribution of resources
classless society · egalitarianism · income equality · wealth redistribution · economic justice
economic segregationinclusive communities
Societies welcoming all members
open access · social inclusion · universal access · universal accessibility · economic mobility
economic, economical, economically, economics, economist, economy, economies, econometrics, segregation