GOVT 2225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Housing Discrimination, Concentrated Poverty, Redlining
12 Jun 2016
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The us is more racially segregated today (2015) than at the end of the civil war (1865)! Spatial patterns of segregation in the us: race and poverty, those that are the most impoverished areas host the most people of color. Segregation measure: index of dissimilarity, exposure and isolation indices. Measures the amount of segregation between two groups in a city: compares each group"s total city population with its population in each neighborhood, ranges from 0 to 100, higher numbers represent more segregation. Rule of thumb: indices <30 are low, indices 30-60 are moderate, indices 60+ are high. Represents the percentage one group would have to move to achieve an even residential pattern. Black-white residential segregation has continued to decline: peak in 1960-70s, since then steady but slow decline. Hispanics and asians still less segregated than blacks, but their continued population growth has increased their likelihood of living in isolation.
