Residential Segregation Case Study

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SEGREGATION Segregation is a process of separating a group of people either in the basis of class, race, religion, ethnicity or any other group from the society. The separation is often forceful. Societies will always have difference when it comes to political decisions, status of the economy and the origins in terms of race ("A History of Segregation in the United States History Essay", 2015). This study reviews the background information to racial residential segregation in the United States of America and the possible solutions to this. Racial residential segregation is usually as a result of self-segregation by blacks, moves by households that are white from neighborhoods …show more content…

The solutions to residential segregation could be classified according to the basis which include place, people and indirect approaches (Bouston, 2013). The main aim of policies based on place is to improve the amenities and housing stocks in black dominated neighborhoods as a means of encouraging the white to settle in these areas or alternatively creation of affordable options for housing in the whites’ neighborhood to encourage the white settling in such places. However the challenges to this approach is that research conducted showed that the white households still had a negative mentality towards the black neighborhoods and no matter the improvement to these neighborhoods, they still won’t move. Another challenge with the policy is that improvements to neighborhoods will consequently lead to rise in house prices making it unaffordable even to those currently living …show more content…

Some of these policies include, improvement of quality of education, improving penetration of public transportation routes into black neighborhoods and subsidizing the cost for owning cars for the blacks. The main reasoning behind this kind of policies is that segregation between the blacks and whites occurs as a result of education levels, job opportunities as opposed to development of social pathologies that are associated with poor neighborhoods. The purpose of improving the quality of education is in order to improve the level of social status and advance the probabilities and the level of interaction. This could lead to increased integration between the two groups which would consequently lead to acceptance and interactions in neighborhoods. When the blacks level of education advances, they are able to understand root causes of racial segregation, policies on such issues and be able to develop more advanced ways to deal with the

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