neighborhood segregation
Housing-based racial division
Neighborhood segregation is the separation of residential areas along racial, ethnic, or economic lines.
It results from historical policies like redlining, discriminatory lending, and restrictive covenants, as well as ongoing patterns of housing discrimination and white flight.
Neighborhood segregation persists in most American cities despite decades of fair housing laws.
The effects compound across generations, concentrating poverty and limiting access to quality schools, jobs, and services.
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- white flightDemographic shift toward segregated areas
- housing discriminationUnequal treatment in property access
- blockbustingScaring homeowners into selling
zoning · boundaries · divide · inequality · exclusion · racial covenants · separate but equal · suburbs · white picket fence · inner city · displacement · gentrification · poverty · racial wealth gap · barriers · integration · apartheid · ethnic enclave
neighborhood segregationmixed neighborhoods
Areas with diverse residents
housing integration · diverse neighborhoods · inclusive communities · desegregation · mixed-income housing
neighborhood segregationsocial integration
Absorption into community life
neighborhood, segregation, neighbor, neighbour, neighbouring, neighboring, neighborly, neighbourly, neighbors