«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would
reduce income segregation,» Owens said.
The evidence is that choice among government schools
reduced income segregation.
Not exact matches
«I'm talking about high - quality housing, that's mixed
income, which will help
reduce the
segregation,» he said.
I'm talking about high quality housing that's mixed
income - which will help
reduce segregation - that's humanly scaled on scattered sites, not concentrated in high - rises, is built in the suburbs as well as the cities, in all neighborhoods in the cities, and is green.»
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.
«Neighborhood and school poverty are big drivers of low -
income kids» poor educational outcomes, so rising
income segregation perpetuates inequality and may
reduce poor kids» mobility.»
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.
The cost
segregation helps this minority by generating greater depreciation deductions to
reduce the tax on their rental
income and, in some cases,
reduce the tax on other
income if they are considered active real estate investors.