The One-Way Street of Integration

Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities

Edward G Goetz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:15th Mar '20

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The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities.

The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

A courageous work in that Goetz confronts a difficult debate head on. Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward.

* Journal of Planning Education and Research *

Should stimulate debate.

* Choice *

Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate.

* The Metropole *

Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement.

* Journal of Urban Affairs *

Goetz has written an important and timely book. Beyond its substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on American urban policy, infinitely more important is its potential to aid in the ongoing struggle against racial injustice and American white supremacy—something needed now perhaps more than ever.

* Shelterfor

ISBN: 9781501748479

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 454g

228 pages