The geography of opportunity [[electronic resource] ] : race and housing choice in metropolitan America / / Xavier de Souza Briggs, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458157503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-280-81322-9; 9786610813223; 0-8157-9778-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BriggsXavier de Souza
• Disciplina: 363.5990073
• Soggetti: 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; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.