Isn't the cost of housing a segregation?
We always notice the segregation, but, we don't identify what causes it except the visuals. Isn't the cost of housing a significant division among people? With the cost of housing comes investment in schools, parks and community involvement.
The Democrats will always say it is a socio-economic dimension. Isn't the economics entering into this more than we should be comfortable with. There was a paradigm at one time that states if the poor and middle class were eliminated from the landscape who would work for the wealthy. Perhaps San Francisco can be testament to that, except, as the wealthy move in the shop owners sell upper class items that bring them wealth, too.
April 14, 2016
By the NYTimes
As officials work (click here) to expand the supply of affordable housing in New York City, the issue of residential segregation has received less attention. Highly segregated pockets exist in all five boroughs: Latinos in the Bronx and Manhattan; whites in Manhattan and on Staten Island; blacks and whites in Brooklyn; and Asians, blacks and Latinos in Queens.
The New York Times asked residents in community districts with the highest concentrations of each group, according to research from New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, to tell us how they liked where they lived....
Language is huge. But, in communities where language is less of a barrier has mixed language spoken and I am thinking about Jewish communities where some of the most orthodox live. There is community involvement that carries to city hall and the greater society even though the ethnics are knee deep.
I remember the death of Leiby Kletzky. The outpouring didn't come from just the community, it came from the world. That level of recognition and respect for diversity comes from a compassionate society that embraces every person.
We have problems in the USA with ethnic identity. Not every American would be comfortable with strong cultural difference. But, I think the economic aspect of racism needs to be examined and remedied before we can say segregation is the outcome of an identity hated by others. I am not saying racism doesn't exist, but, to what extent and how much does it reach into segregation.
“You have more bars in a black neighborhood, more fast foods, more bodegas. In other neighborhoods you find stuff with nutrients, you find fat-free, sugar-free. Not here.”
That is economic and not choice. Americans are suppose to have choices in their life, that requires a way out of poverty. It is what is so frustrating about a corrupt Republican Congress, even our school children can't get away from garbage to eat.
