How 3 Decades of Increased Segregation in the Bay Area is Hurting Communities of Color

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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More than a half-century after the Fair Housing Act made housing discrimination illegal, segregation in residential communities is not only prevalent, but on the rise. More than 80% of metropolitan regions in the U.S. have become more segregated since 1990, and many Bay Area cities are among them, according to a report released this week from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. Housing segregation can affect income, health and educational opportunities, particularly for people of color. We’ll talk about the impacts of segregation in the Bay Area and which cities have become more or less segregated in the past few decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.5	Ending segregation was a defining motivation of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s,
1:25.7	and its capstone is often seen as the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
1:29.4	Yet here we are more than 50 years later, and according to a new report from the UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute,
1:33.5	American metropolitan areas have gotten more racially segregated since 1990. This has wide-ranging
1:40.0	effects on who becomes wealthy, how our kids are educated, and the level and type of policing
1:44.3	in our streets. We'll spend the hour talking about our local communities and how American
1:48.7	economic policies have continued to encourage the sorting of all of us by the color of our
1:53.2	skin. That's all next on Forum after this news.
1:59.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:02.6	By most measures that social scientists have, individual people in the United States hold less racist attitudes now than they did in decades past.
2:11.0	For example, more people are cool with their children marrying someone of another race or having a neighbor with a different ethnicity.
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