Which families gain access to neighborhood and school contexts most conducive to their children’s development? Race and class continue to play central roles given the…
The draw of white and well-resourced suburban public schools has long fueled segregation in America’s metropolitan areas, but what happens when these schools become more…
Since the mid-twentieth century, many American suburbs have transformed from lily white enclaves to multiracial milieus. How do advantaged families respond? With residential…
In recent years, federal housing policy has shifted toward a system that is increasingly reliant on tenant-based subsidies. Of the five million households across the country…
W14-11: This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars…