The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Edward G. Goetz
Abstract
The book examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have for decades constituted contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. The book traces the tensions between these two approaches as they have been manifest in different ways since the 1940s. The core argument is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The book presents a critique of integration efforts of fair ... More
Keywords: Integration, Community development, Fair housing, Affordable housing, Race, Racial justice, Housing
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501707599 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: September 2018 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501707599.001.0001 |
