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List of contents
- Part I: Facing the Causes and Consequences of Segregation
- Chapter 1: Segregation: A Threat to Americans' Shared Goals
- Molly W. Metzger and Henry S. Webber
- Chapter 2: De Facto Segregation: A National Myth
- Richard Rothstein
- Chapter 3: The Siting Dilemma: Race and the Location of Federal Housing Projects
- Lance Freeman
- Chapter 4: The Enduring Significance of Segregation
- Jason Q. Purnell
- Part II: The Policy Agenda
- Chapter 5: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and the Inclusive Communities Project Case: Bringing the Fair Housing Act into the Twenty-First Century
- Philip D. Tegeler
- Chapter 6: Enabling More Families with Housing Vouchers to Access Higher-Opportunity Neighborhoods
- Barbara Sard
- Chapter 7: The Community Reinvestment Act as a Catalyst for Integration and an Antidote to Concentrated Poverty
- John Taylor and Josh Silver
- Chapter 8: Promoting Poverty Deconcentration and Racial Desegregation Through Mixed-Income Development
- Mark L. Joseph
- Chapter 9: Market-Savvy Housing and Community Development Policy: Grappling with the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
- Todd Swanstrom
- Chapter 10: Financing Affordability: Tax Increment Financing and the Potential for Concentrated Reinvestment
- Sarah L. Coffin
- Chapter 11: Beyond Education Triage: Building Brain Regimes in Metropolitan America
- William F. Tate IV
- Chapter 12: Concluding Thoughts on an Agenda for Solving Segregation
- Henry S. Webber and Molly W. Metzger
About the author
Molly W. Metzger, PhD, is assistant professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Metzger's research focuses on public policy, structural racism, and residential segregation in the United States. She is a community-engaged scholar, working with housing advocates in the St. Louis region to bring an evidence-based approach to activism.
Henry S. (Hank) Webber, MPP, is executive vice chancellor and chief administrative officer at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also professor of practice at the Brown School and the School of Architecture and Urban Design. Mr. Webber's research and writing center on community development, mixed-income housing, racial and economic segregation, and the role of anchor institutions in urban development.
Summary
Since the passing of the Fair Housing Act, integration by social class has decreased. In Facing Segregation, Metzger and Webber bring together notable scholars to reflect on how to use policy to advance housing justice and show how the power of government can be harnessed to a constructive end.
Additional text
Edited and written by distinguished scholars, Facing Segregation makes a brilliant and comprehensive case for why continuing racial and economic segregation is harmful to the nation, and promotes policies that can be effective in creating more inclusionary communities, ones that benefit all Americans.
