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“It’s really long overdue”: Why Obama’s new anti-segregation rules are coming decades late
Earlier this month, the administration announced a new initiative intended to reverse some of the racial segregation that has long characterized housing in the United States. The plan is to provide much more information to local authorities about segregation in their communities; and then to use a mix of carrots and sticks to encourage them to reduce it. The administration's plans will help, but they're just a start, Rutgers University's Paul Jargowsky tells Salon.
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I think it is overdue. I've added a link to the dot map that shows the segregation. In the big cities it is as you would expect but even in small cities minorities are segregated usually in the older parts of the city.
Great map, thanks! You're right that this is an issue for both big and small cities.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't shake the feeling that housing segregation is a symptom, not a cause. Thus any attempt to end it will be futile and temporary unless we actually deal with the underlying racism that leads to it. And in the mean time, it will just make people angry and resentful at what they view as unnecessary government interference in their lives.
I don't know, I'd like to be convinced I'm wrong.