Dig Deeper
Below is just a snapshot of the wealth of information on integration, segregation, and fair housing spread across the web. If you have a resource or link that you would like us to add, please get in touch.
Blog Posts / Articles / Website
- “Affirming Fair Housing’s Future” by Rob Breymaier (ProgressIllinois.com, 11/10/08)
- “Integration / Segregation Researcher on Obama’s Transition Team” by Justin Massa (MoveSmart.org, 11/15/08)
- “The (Urban) Policy President?” by Matt Hersh (Rooflines.org, 11/11008)
- “How to Support Affordable Housing in Chicago” by Robin Petersen (Neighbors Project, 10/30/08)
- “Ending American Apartheid” by Daniel Lauber (link under section entitled “Achieving Stable, Racially-Integrated Communities” on the right; this is the full version of this ongoing research published in condensed form as “Racially Diverse Communities: A National Necessity,” in the books African Americans in Urban America: Contemporary Experiences, Wendy Kellogg, ed., and Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s, Phillip Nyden and Wim Wiewel, eds.)
- “Fair Housing, Foreclosure Problems, and the Global Economic Crisis” by Prof. Nandinee Kutty (HousingCrisis.wordpress.com, 11/17/08)
Research Papers
- “Critical Issues: Racial Blind Spots; A Barrier to Integrated Communities in Chicago”, by Prof. Maria Krysan (IGPA, UIC)
- “Policy Forum: Racial Segregation in Metropolitan Chicago Housing”, by Profs. Maria Krysan and Tyrone Forman (IGPA, UIC)
Books
- The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America, edited by Xavier de Souza Briggs
- Segregation: The Rising Cost for America, edited by Nandinee Kutty and James Carr
- The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, by Sheryll Cashin
- American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton
- Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration, by Ingrid Gould Ellen
