Discrimination and Segregation in Housing

Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process

Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an in...

Cityscape: Housing Discrimination Today

Understanding hot spots of crime has been a concern of spatial criminology for nearly 200 years. A number of methods are used to identify and calculate hot spots, such as dot maps, surface interpolation (kernel density estimation), and statistically identified cluster analysis. Relating to the latter set of methods, local Moran’s I is one of the more commonly used methods for identifying local ...

Cityscape: Housing Discrimination Today

Discrimination violates the basic human right of equal treatment, adopted, for example, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Discrimination is without doubt a threat against the cohesion in a society and leads to the exclusion of people. The international human rights law also recognizes everyone’s right to adequate housing and standard of living. Furtherm...

Understanding Racial Segregation: What is known about the Effect of Housing Discrimination

A central purpose of this chapter is to assess whether the available empirical evidence supports the view that current levels of housing discrimination are a significant contributor to residential segregation in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. Through the course of this chapter, the reader will find that the empirical patterns of racial segregation in the U.S. are often inconsistent the ava...

Critique of Racial Discrimination in Private Housing