State of the Union 2016: Residential Segregation

Segregation often overlaps with many other place-based inequalities—poverty, unemployment, crime, and housing quality and overcrowding. These overlapping disadvantages are seemingly much more common in the U.S. than in European countries, where government efforts to promote integration provide a clear contrast to the market-driven solutions preferred in the U.S.

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Author: 

Daniel T. Lichter,
Domenico Parisi,
Helga de Valk
Publication Date: 
February 2016