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And once people start to avoid thinking about it, then fewer and fewer people, as time goes on, remember the history at all. In the Great Depression, many lower-middle class and working-class families lost their home. So the Public Works Administration constructed the first civilian public housing ever in this country.

Initially, it was primarily for white families in segregated white projects, but at some point, a few projects were built for African-Americans in segregated African-American projects. His best friend in high school was Polish. He dated a Jewish girl. That neighborhood in Cleveland was razed by the WPA, which built two segregated [ones], one for African-Americans, one for whites.

The Depression gave the stimulus for the first civilian public housing to be built. Were it not for that policy, many of these cities might have developed with a different residential pattern. The main justification they used was that segregation was necessary because if African-Americans lived in those neighborhoods, the property values of those neighborhoods would decline.

But, in fact, the FHA had no evidence of this claim. Indeed, the opposite was the case. The FHA had research that demonstrated that property values rose when African-Americans moved into white neighborhoods, but it ignored its own research. African-Americans had fewer options for housing. African-Americans were willing to pay more to purchase homes than whites were for identical homes, so when African-Americans moved into a white neighborhood, property values generally rose.

Only after an organized effort by the real estate industry to create all-black suburbs and overcrowd them and turn them into slums did property values decline. But that was the rationale and it persisted for at least three decades, perhaps more. President Harry Truman proposed the act because of an enormous civilian housing shortage. At the end of World War II, veterans returned home, they formed families; they needed places to live.

The federal government had restricted the use of building materials for defense purposes only, so there was no private housing industry operating at that time. Conservatives in Congress in were opposed to any public housing, not for racial reasons, because most housing was for whites.

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Johnson , 14; see note Western and Pettit , 3; see note Western and Pettit , 5, 22; see note Educational data consistently show a close relationship between family income and test scores.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress reports that, for example, in fourth graders eligible for free or reduced price lunch with family incomes no greater than percent of the poverty line had average math scores of , while students who were not eligible had average scores of This is a gap of about 0. Taking a more extreme comparison, between children from the wealthiest families at the 90th percentile of the income distribution and those from the poorest at the 10th percentile , the test score gap is about a full standard deviation or greater similar to a gap of about 34 points in cohort rank.

Other data show similar differences. We might, for example, expect a narrower difference on the SAT, because a smaller proportion of students from less-wealthy families take the SAT, and those who do are probably those with greater ability than the typical lower-income student.

Anna K. Chmielewski and Sean F. These estimates compare the average income of parents over a 5-year period with the average income of their children when these children are approximately the same age as the parents were when the initial income data were collected.

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Swain, Israel Liberzon, and K. Shonkoff and Garner , ; see note Salma Bahreinian, Geoff D. Ball, Timothy K. McNeil, Allan B. Becker, and Anita L. Marijke M. Tibosch, Christianne M. Verhaak, and Peter J. Jutta M. Wolf, Gregory E. Pfaff ; see note Eric H. Holder Jr. Lantigua-Williams ; see note 1. Alexander , ; see note The report has been corrected. We acknowledge an anonymous web commenter for calling attention to this oversight. See related work on Race and Ethnicity Education Educational inequity.

See more work by Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein. See related work on Race and Ethnicity , Education , and Educational inequity. Download PDF Press release. Executive summary As many as one in ten African American students has an incarcerated parent. Key findings include: An African American child is six times as likely as a white child to have or have had an incarcerated parent.

A growing share of African Americans have been arrested for drug crimes, yet African Americans are no more likely than whites to sell or use drugs. Only 42 percent of African Americans owned their homes in , compared with 73 percent of whites, according to CAP calculations of data coming from the U.

Census Bureau; See U. Oliver and Thomas M. Lisa J. Home-purchase loans to African American borrowers have increased in ; since , the number of these loans has more than doubled—from 74, to , Detailed tabulations are available from the author upon request. National home prices featured considerable volatility during the past housing cycle: While they increased on average by 51 percent from to , home prices dropped by 21 percent from to and finally rose by 28 percent by the end of to the same levels as in Data are on file with the author.

William H. The dissimilarity index represents the standard measure of residential segregation. Black-white segregation in Dallas is the lowest compared with the other metropolitan areas analyzed in this report.

Like Atlanta and Houston, Dallas has experienced a growth of African American residents in recent decades. It is important to keep in mind that overall home prices in the Houston and Dallas metropolitan areas have been less volatile than in the other areas during and after the financial collapse. In , both areas featured home prices that were well above levels. Ben S. All data are on file with the author. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, and the findings and conclusions presented are those of American Progress alone.

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The recommendations include: Make local jurisdictions once again responsible for planning to achieve fair housing. Empower federal, state, and local governments and nonprofits to fully enforce the Fair Housing Act.

Catch and stop systematic discrimination, rather than perpetuating it. Residential segregation is not a coincidence. Despite some progress, residential segregation and housing discrimination persist. Segregation continues to harm the ability of African American homebuyers to build equity.

African Americans continue to buy homes in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods. Racial disparities in the largest markets where black homebuyers concentrate. It is time to strengthen fair housing enforcement. Make local jurisdictions once again responsible for planning to achieve fair housing In particular, the Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing AFFH rule should be fully reinstated.

Specifically, the analysis employs data coming from the — and — datasets. While the data are provided by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, data for prior years are available through the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the National Archives. The analysis of mortgage loans focuses on two periods: the prerecession years and the postrecession years. For the prerecession years, the analysis pools HMDA data from to HMDA data from to are pooled for the analysis of mortgage lending in the postrecession period.

The analysis focuses on home purchase first-lien loans for one- to four-family, owner-occupied homes. Data are for the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. HMDA data provide census tract identifiers through which it is possible to merge census tract characteristics coming from the U.

The annual HPI represents a broad measure of single-family house price trends. The — American Community Survey, which provides detailed census-tract-level information on racial composition. Gregory D. See also James H.

Carr, Michela Zonta, and Steven P. When first enacted, the law prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin. With the amendments of and , three additional protected classes were added: sex, familial status, and disability. This, too, is a result of policy: for instance, the government prevented African Americans from accessing employment in the decades after slavery, excluded them from New Deal and post-World War II work programs, and failed to enforce nondiscrimination laws against racist companies and labor unions.

Local governments systematically overtax African American communities, who often pay several times what they legally should in property taxes. And housing has always been overpriced in African American ghettos: throughout the 20th century, landlords knew black tenants would pay several times more in rent, compared to white tenants. A few additional factors exacerbate this problem: property appreciates more rapidly in white neighborhoods, and most white families bought their first homes before , when wages for most Americans stopped growing.

In Chapter Twelve, Rothstein asks what can be done about residential segregation now. While most Americans are too cowardly or cynical to face history, he argues, it is still possible to push for more integration. He points out easy fixes, like rewriting misleading textbooks and actually enforcing the Fair Housing Act. In fact, some cities have already improved public housing voucher programs on a smaller scale and reaped the benefits of integration in select neighborhoods.

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