Adjunct Professor Craig Gurian recently wrote an article published in CityLimits.org about segregated housing patterns that exist in New York City and in the broader metropolitan region.
Gurian is the executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. His published work includes “Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York.”
We know that segregated housing patterns—created decades ago through deliberate discrimination by both public and private actors—are still being maintained through governmental policy: exclusionary zoning on the suburban level; a range of segregation-perpetuating policies on the city level. But knowing that doesn’t answer the question as to why there hasn’t been more success in eliminating those policies.