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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]State and local governments are partially to blame by not placing subsidized housing in wealthier neighborhoods.  If that were done, low-income families with a desire to be surrounded by higher-SES citizens would probably make the choice to move. Their children would benefit from the better schools in the higher SES-neighborhoods.

But make no mistake:  many low-income families would prefer to stay in their low-SES neighborhoods, even if the government offered them different choices for residency.

And, of course, as a prior person stated, people with the means to choose where they live should choose to live in diverse (meaning racially as well as income diverse) neighborhoods because that's good for society.  But make no mistake:  a lot of what is going on is not structural racism, but the result of choices.  The fact that many people who live in low-SES neighborhoods are low income only partially explains why those low-SES neighborhoods are not racially diverse.[/quote]

Low SES neighborhoods are high-crime neighborhoods with bad schools. While some poor folks stay in low SES neighborhoods in such conditions because of their social network, many, many poor folks stay because they have no other options.

Programs like Section 8 were supposed to address this, and allow the urban poor to escape to middle-class neighborhoods, but housing vouchers are underfunded, and often not accepted in neighborhoods where middle-class people live.

http://www.shelterforce.org/article/special/1043/P2/[/quote]

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