housing segregation
Neighborhood racial separation
Housing segregation is the separation of residential areas by race, ethnicity, or economic class.
It results from discriminatory practices—redlining, restrictive covenants, exclusionary zoning—and their lasting effects on neighborhood composition.
Housing segregation persists in many American cities despite fair housing laws.
The term usually implies systematic patterns rather than individual choices.
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- blockbustingScaring homeowners into selling
- sundown townSegregated community enforcing nightfall expulsion
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- discriminateTreat unequally based on category
zoning · restrictive covenant · covenant · exclusion · color line · separate but equal · neighborhood · racial · divide · fence · boundary · white flight · project · suburb · urban · urban renewal · barrier · inequality
- housingapartments, home, homes, apartment, condo
- Fair HousingFHA, HUD, protected classes, fair lending, disability discrimination
- injusticeinjustice, inequality, discrimination, bias, prejudice
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only, whites only signs
- school segregationschool integration, Brown v. Board, separate but equal, school busing, Plessy v. Ferguson
- Turkish diasporaguest workers, migrants, labor migration, migrant labor, family reunification
housing segregationhousing integration
Ending segregated living areas
mixed-income housing · diverse neighborhoods · desegregation · racial integration · mixed neighborhoods
housing segregationfair housing
Antidiscrimination laws for rentals
open housing · housing equality · inclusionary zoning · housing equity · fair lending
housing, segregation, house, houses, housed, housekeeper, household, housework, segregate