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Title The geography of opportunity : race and housing choice in metropolitan America / Xavier de Souza Briggs, editor
Published Washington D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 353 pages) : illustrations
Contents More pluribus, less unum? : the changing geography of race and opportunity / Xavier de Souza Briggs -- Can we live together? : racial preferences and neighborhood outcomes / Camille Zubrinsky Charles -- How racial discrimination affects the search for housing / Margery Austin Turner and Stephen L. Ross -- The dual mortgage market : the persistence of discrimination in mortgage lending / William Apgar and Allegra Calder -- Expanding housing choice and integrating neighborhoods : the MTO experiment / John Goering -- New capabilities in new places : low-income black families in suburbia / James Rosenbaum, Stefanie DeLuca, and Tammy Tuck -- Beyond the projects : lessons from public housing transformation in Chicago / Susan J. Popkin and Mary K. Cunningham -- The persistence of segregation in government housing programs / Phillip D. Tegeler -- Connecting smart growth, housing affordability, and racial equity / Rolf Pendall [and others] -- The rise and fall of fair share housing : lessons from the twin cities / Edward G. Goetz, Karen Chapple, and Barbara Lukermann -- Fair housing and affordable housing advocacy : reconciling the dual agenda / Mara S. Sidney -- Equitable development for a stronger nation : lessons from the field / Angela Glover Blackwell and Judith Bell -- Politics and policy : changing the geography of opportunity / Xavier de Souza Briggs
Summary "A multidisciplinary examination of the social and economic changes resulting from increased diversity and their implications for economic opportunity and growth given persistent patterns of segregation by race and class, offering both public policy and private initiatives that would respond to those challenges"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Discrimination in housing -- United States.
Residential mobility -- United States
Housing -- United States
Housing policy -- United States
Low-income housing -- United States
Metropolitan areas -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
Discrimination in housing
Housing
Housing policy
Low-income housing
Metropolitan areas
Residential mobility
Bostadssegregation -- Förenta staterna.
Bostadspolitik -- Förenta staterna.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author De Souza Briggs, Xavier N
ISBN 0815797788
9780815797784