residential segregation
Neighborhood racial division
Residential segregation is the separation of population groups into different neighborhoods, typically by race, ethnicity, or income.
It results from historical policies like redlining, restrictive covenants, and discriminatory lending, as well as ongoing practices and economic disparities.
Residential segregation persists in many American cities despite fair housing laws.
The term usually implies the arrangement is unjust or harmful.
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- racial covenantsDeed clauses barring minorities
- gentrificationWealthy influx displacing locals
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
color line · suburbanization · housing discrimination · educational inequality · health disparities · environmental racism · urban renewal · blockbusting · wealth gap · zoning laws · housing affordability · urban sprawl · gated communities · property values · community organizing · white flight · steering · wrong side of the tracks
- Apartheidapartheid, pass laws, Group Areas Act, passbook, passbooks
- segregationredlining, ghetto, ghettos, steering, blockbusting
- school segregationschool integration, Brown v. Board, separate but equal, school busing, Plessy v. Ferguson
residential segregationhousing integration
Ending segregated living areas
desegregation · mixed neighborhoods · diverse neighborhoods · mixed-income housing · open housing
residential segregationinclusionary zoning
Policy requiring affordable housing
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