Why read Moving Toward Integration?

Book cover of Moving Toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing

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Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and political conversations have come to believe that the battle to…

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1 author picked Moving Toward Integration as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Richard D. Kahlenberg

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Richard Sander, whom I have known and respected for years, has, with his colleagues, written a deeply comprehensive and authoritative book on the origins of housing segregation, the consequences, and what to do about it.

By comparing highly segregated metropolitan regions with ones that are less segregated, the authors demonstrate that high levels of housing segregation provides the central explanation for a whole host of other racial gap in America, including those related to educational achievement, employment, and mortality rates. The book is a stirring call for action.

From Richard's list on The best books about the government housing rules that decide who gets to live where in America.