Dream Revisited

Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is the author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (2000) and coeditor of How to House the Homeless (2010).Justin Peter Steil is the Class of 1942 Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor of Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2009).

[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Meaning of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 1: Why Integration?Discussion 2: Comparative Perspectives on SegregationDiscussion 3: Neighborhood Income SegregationDiscussion 4: Suburban Poverty and SegregationDiscussion 5: The Relationship Between Residential and School SegregationPart II: Causes of Contemporary Racial SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 6: Ending Segregation: Our Progress TodayDiscussion 7: The Stubborn Persistence of Racial SegregationDiscussion 8: Implicit Bias and SegregationPart III: Consequences of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 9: Explaining Ferguson Through Place and RaceDiscussion 10: Segregation and Law EnforcementDiscussion 11: Segregation and HealthDiscussion 12: Segregation and the Financial CrisisDiscussion 13: Segregation and PoliticsPart IV: Policy ImplicationsIntroductionDiscussion 14: The Future of the Fair Housing ActDiscussion 15: Affirmatively Furthering Fair HousingDiscussion 16: Balancing Investments in People and PlaceDiscussion 17: Addressing Neighborhood DisinvestmentDiscussion 18: Place-Based Affirmative ActionDiscussion 19: Selecting Neighborhoods for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit DevelopmentsDiscussion 20: Public Housing and Deconcentrating PovertyDiscussion 21: Creating Mixed-Income Housing Through Inclusionary ZoningDiscussion 22: Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher ProgramDiscussion 23: Making Vouchers More MobileDiscussion 24: Gentrification and the Promise of IntegrationDiscussion 25: Community Preferences and Fair HousingConclusionContributorsIndex