Living Quote by J. D. Vance

“Segregation is still linked to racial disparities of every kind. Where you live plays a significant role in the quality of food and the…

— Jeff Chang

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

— Raphael Warnock

What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There…

— Barack Obama

“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

— Karl Alexander

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change…

— Bruce Hornsby

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're…

— Carol Browner

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or…

— Richard Rothstein