A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality

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FOREWORD

Fostering Inclusion: Whose Problem? Which Problem?
Xavier de Souza Briggs

PART 1: Defining objectives and the rationale for action

Fostering Inclusion in American Neighborhoods | Read the original paper
Jonathan Spader, Shannon Rieger, Christopher Herbert, and Jennifer Molinsky

Integration as a Means of Restoring Democracy and Opportunity | Read the original paper
Sheryll Cashin, Georgetown University 

Consequences of Segregation for Children's Opportunity and Wellbeing | Read the original paper
Nancy McArdle, diversitydatakids.org; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University

Challenging Group-Based Segregation and Isolation: Whether and Why | Read the original paper
Jennifer Hochschild & Shanna Weitz, Harvard University

PART 2: What would it take to promote residential choices that result in greater integration?     

Household Neighborhood Decisionmaking and Segregation | Read the original paper
Justin Steil & Reid Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Data Democratization and Spatial Heterogeneity in the Housing Market | Read the original paper
Ralph McLaughlin, Veritas Urbis Economics; Cheryl Young, Trulia 

Minority Banks, Homeownership, and Prospects for New York City's Multi-Racial Immigrant Neighborhoods | Read the original paper
Tarry Hum, City University of New York

Promoting Integrative Residential Choices: What Would It Take?
Maria Krysan, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington

PART 3: What would it take to make new and remake old neighborhoods so that regions move decisively toward integration?

Pathways to Inclusion: Contexts for Neighborhood Integration in Chicago, Houston, and Washington | Read the original paper
Rolf Pendall, Urban Institute

An Equitable Future for the Washington, DC Region? A "Regionalism Light" Approach to Building Inclusive Neighborhoods | Read the original paper
Willow Lung-Amam, University of Maryland 

Two Extremes of Residential Segregation: Chicago's Separate Worlds & Policy Strategies for Integration | Read the original paper
Marisa Novara & Amy Khare, Metropolitan Planning Council 

Can a Market-Oriented City Also Be Inclusive? | Read the original paper
William Fulton, Rice University

PART 4: What would it take for HUD's AFFH rule to meaningfully increase inclusion?       

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: The Potential and the Challenge for Fulfilling the Promise of HUD's Final Rule | Read the original paper
Katherine O'Regan, New York University

The Potential for HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule to Meaningfully Increase Inclusion | Read the original paper
Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank Atlanta; Arthur Acolin, University of Washington

Speaking Truth to Power: Enhancing Community Engagement in the Assessment of Fair Housing Process | Read the original paper
Michael Allen, Relman, Dane, & Colfax PLLC 

The Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing: A Legal as Well as Policy Imperative | Read the original paper
Elizabeth Julian, Inclusive Communities Project 

PART 5: What would it take for housing subsidies to overcome affordability barriers to inclusion in all neighborhoods?

Strategies for Maximizing the Benefits of Housing Subsidies | Read the original paper
Margery Austin Turner, Urban Institute

Expanding the Toolbox: Promising Approaches for Increasing Geographic Choice | Read the original paper
Stephen Norman & Sarah Oppenheimer, King County Housing Authority 

Expanding Access to Homeownership as a Means of Fostering Residential Integration and Inclusion | Read the original paper
Chris Herbert, Shannon Rieger, and Jonathan Spader, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies 

PART 6: What would it take for cities experiencing gentrification pressures to foster inclusion rather than replacement?

Can Gentrification be Inclusive? | Read the original paper
Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University 

We Live Here Too: Incorporating Residents' Voices in Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Gentrification | Read the original paper
Malo Andre Hutson, Columbia University

Inclusion Through Homeownership | Read the original paper
Colvin Grannum, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

What More Do We Need to Know About How to Prevent and Mitigate Displacement of Low- and Moderate-Income Households from Gentrifying Neighborhoods? | Read the original paper
Vicki Been, New York University

PART 7: What would it take to foster residential outcomes that support school integration, and vice versa?  

The Interdependence of Housing and School Segregation | Read the original paper
Anurima Bhargava, Open Society Foundations

Addressing the Patterns of Resegregation in Urban and Suburban Contexts: How to Stabilize Integrated Schools and Communities Amid Metro Migrations | Read the original paper
Amy Stuart Wells, Lauren Fox, Diana Cordova-Cobo & Douglas Ready, Columbia University 

The Social and Economic Value of Intentional Integration Programs in Oak Park, IL | Read the original paper
J. Robert Breymaier, Oak Park Regional Housing Center 

Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation | Read the original paper
Philip Tegeler & Michael Hilton, Poverty & Race Research Action Council