Sentences with phrase «more income segregation»

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Ms. Brewer, normally a de Blasio ally, embraced the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan with major caveats: namely, requirements that would limit the tallest buildings to the widest streets, steps to preserve rowhouse blocks, a ban on any kind of segregation by income in the new buildings and expanding the program to encompass both more low and more middle - income earners.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

Changing school attendance policies could be «more feasible than reducing income inequality, raising the minimum wage, instituting metropolitan governance, or creating affordable housing stock to address residential segregation,» Owens wrote.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

In UCLA's study about New York State school segregation, Kuscera and Orfield write, «data also indicate that as a school becomes more minority, the school will also become more low - income and, as such, is twice as likely to exhibit educational opportunities and outcomes.»

Congress approves Public Housing reforms to reduce segregation by race and income, encourage and reward work, bring more working families into public housing, and increase the availability of subsidized housing for very poor families.