The One-Way Street of Integration : : Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities / / Edward G. Goetz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Goetz, Edward G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities, and by tracing the tensions involved in housing integration and policy across fifty years and myriad developments he shows why.Goetz's core argument, in a provocative book that shows today's debates about housing, mobility, and race have deep roots, is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather than integrated housing projects that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO REGIONAL EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE -- 1. THE INTEGRATION IMPERATIVE -- 2. AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- 3. THE "HOLLOW PROSPECT" OF INTEGRATION -- 4. THE THREE STATIONS OF FAIR HOUSING SPATIAL STRATEGY -- 5. NEW ISSUES, UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS, AND THE WIDENING DEBATE -- Conclusion: EVERYONE DESERVES TO LIVE IN AN OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD -- Notes -- Sources -- Index