Housing Buyouts Exacerbate Segregation

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A federal housing buyout program intended to reduce flood risks is exacerbating housing segregation, a study published late last week in Environmental Research Letters reveals. “Any time a color-blind policy enters a racialized housing landscape, it’s going to be segmented,” Jim Elliott, a professor at Rice University and the lead author of the study, told … Continued

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