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Residentially segregated neighborhoods, in combination with school zone gerrymandering, leads to racial/ethnic segregation in schools. Studies have found that schools tend to be equally or more segregated than their surrounding neighborhoods, further exacerbating patterns of residential segregation and racial inequality. [40]
Many of these urban, low-income neighborhoods experience unequal accessibility to services compared to their suburban counterparts, which often results in an unhealthy food environment. [11] [12] One of the main reasons for the increasing presence of unhealthy food environments in these neighborhoods is the emergence of food deserts. Several ...
Any neighborhood with "inharmonious racial groups" would either be marked red or yellow, depending on the proportion of Black residents. [35] This was explicitly stated within the FHA underwriting manual that the HOLC used as for its maps. [36] Page of HOLC document from Philadelphia redlining map. Zone D20, one of the red areas.
Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States is a 30-year update of the final report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission), co-authored by former Kerner Commissioner, Senator and Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Chairman Fred R. Harris and Eisenhower Foundation President Alan Curtis.
Neighborhood effects are also seen due to housing discrimination and residential segregation. The housing inequality that comes with living in lower-quality housing means that neighborhood amenities are lacking. [74] Education policy is intrinsically connected to housing policy as integration of schools requires integration of neighborhoods. [69]
The city of West Sacramento illegally divided a historically Latino and low-income community into separate City Council districts, a Yolo County judge ruled on July 7. ... with a district map ...
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The "separate but equal" doctrine applied in theory to all public facilities: not only railroad cars but schools, medical facilities, theaters, restaurants, restrooms, and drinking fountains. However, neither state nor Congress put "separate but equal" into the statute books, meaning the provision of equal services to non-whites could not be ...