Continuing Isolation: Segregation in America Today


 

Publication Date: December 2008

Publisher: Furman Center for Real Estate

Author(s): Ingrid Gould Ellen

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: race; segregation; Community and Economic Development

Type: Chapter

Abstract:

“Segregation: The Rising Costs for America” documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households.