By James H. Carr, Nandinee K. Kutty
Segregation: The emerging bills for the United States records how discriminatory practices within the housing markets via lots of the previous century, and that proceed this day, have produced severe degrees of residential segregation that lead to major disparities in entry to sturdy jobs, caliber schooling, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation among minority and non-minority families. The publication additionally demonstrates how difficulties dealing with minority groups are more and more very important to the nation’s long term financial energy and international competitiveness as a complete. recommendations to the demanding situations dealing with the country in making a extra equitable society should not past our skill to layout or enforce, and it's within the curiosity of all american citizens to aid courses aimed toward making a extra simply society. The ebook is uniquely invaluable to scholars within the social sciences and public coverage, in addition to to coverage makers, and town planners.
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Stable, affordable housing makes long-term uninterrupted attendance in the same school possible for children, thereby enhancing the learning experience for the individual child as well as the entire class. Socioeconomic segregation becomes an important cause of educational inequality in a variety of ways, including its impact on local finances for schools. According to the authors, understanding the housing–schools nexus is an important first step. The chapter describes specific initiatives that have tried to leverage the connections between housing and schools in order to improve both.
4 percent. Assuming the homeownership rate had remained at its 2004 high point, there would be between 298,000 to 382,000 additional African American homeowners. , 2005). And because excessive subprime lending has been heavily concentrated in African American and Latino communities for the past decade, those communities are already beginning to feel the disproportionate loss of aggregate community wealth. Thus, many minority households and communities have actually been made worse off as a result of increased access to mortgage credit because of deceptive outreach and marketing practices, abusive loan products and underwriting criteria, and inadequate consumer financial protections that have allowed fraudulent practices to flourish.
According to William B. Harvey of the American Council on Education, “[I]t makes a lot more 30 • James H. Carr and Nandinee K. Kutty sense for us as a society to spend money developing people than incarcerating people. The payoff is dramatically positive over time in terms of earning potential and contribution to society” (Hocker, 2002). Baker and Boushey warn that the United States will face many serious challenges over the next two decades, and that while solutions to the problems the country currently faces are not easy, those problems will worsen if they are not addressed.