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Link to full October-December 2022 issue

Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility

Introduction

This past August, economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published two new papers in Nature, based on a massive dataset and accompanied by detailed maps on Opportunity Insights’ new Social Capital Atlas, that continue to build the economic case for integration – bringing children together within communities, schools, and institutions, and across class differences. Using Facebook data linked to IRS and other datasets, the study made an empirical comparison of three classic forms of social capital and found that “connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low vs. high socioeconomic status” was the strongest predictor of upward economic mobility for low income children – and that these positive impacts were further enhanced by the degree to which children were living and going to school in places where “friending bias” (the tendency to be connected to people in your own SES group) was lowest. Policymakers and advocates were already indebted to Professor Chetty and his co-authors for their 2015 finding that children who move from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods when they are young have dramatically improved outcomes as adults, and this new research has brought us closer to understanding the mechanisms that drive these outcomes. As the following essays illustrate, Chetty’s findings have crucial lessons for federal housing programs, land use, housing mobility, and school integration.

October-December 2022 Issue Articles

Social Capital and Economic Connectedness

The Chetty Team’s Social Capital Findings: A Timely Boost for Mixed-Income Development

Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research

How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation

Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs

Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation


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 Link to full January-September 2022 issue

January-September 2022 Issue Articles

Colonized Time, Racial Time, and the Legal Time of Progress

Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain Areas

School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report

Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property

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Link to full October-December 2021 issue

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: I. Policy Windows and Policy Strategies

Connecting Housing and School Integration Research, Practice, and Policy

The Bridges Collaborative: Centering Practitioners in the Fight for Integration

School Desegregation, School Rezoning, and Growth Management in Two Maryland Counties

Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance School Desegregation and Promote Educational Equity

Defining Segregation

Tackling School and Housing Segregation Through Revisions to AFFH

Prioritizing Educational Equity and School Integration in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Strategies

New Urban Institute Report and Data Tool Highlight Racially Unequal School Boundaries Across the US

Connecting Housing and School Integration – Federal and State Policy Levers

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: II. Evaluating the Past and Moving Forward with a Focus on Equity and Racial Justice

Using Research Evidence to Address Segregation: A Racial Equity Perspective

Policy Change Using a Regional Equity Framework

Ratings, Rankings, and Segregation: The Failure of Measurement and Accountability in Education

Confronting “White Island” School Districts

An Alternative Measure of Student Performance to Help Parents Evaluate Schools

The Policy Possibilities to Confront the Racial Impacts of Gentrification

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: III. How the Next Generation is Tackling the Impact of Segregation in their Community

Q&A: Epic Theatre Ensemble’s Between the Lines Explores Housing and Schools Segregation

Excerpt: Between the Lines

Long Island High School Students Advocate for Housing and School Integration


 Link to full May-September 2021 issue

May-September 2021 Issue Articles

A New Vision for Fair Housing in the Real Estate Industry – Part 1: How the Housing Search Process Perpetuates Segregation

Opportunity Hoarding, Schools, and Racial Reckoning

Integration Through Immersion: The Possibilities of TwoWay Dual Language Programs 

A New Vision for Fair Housing in the Real Estate Industry – Part 2: An Actionable Fair Housing Strategy for Real Estate Agents and Agencies


 Link to full January-April 2021 issue

January-April 2021 Issue Articles

Land Values and the Enduring Significance of Racial Residential Segregation

The Making of Boston’s AFFH Ordinance – A Brief Oral History

The American Right to Education: The Northwest Ordinance, Reconstruction, and the Current Challenge

Gentrification, Demographic Change, and the Challenges of Integration

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Poverty & Race (ISSN 1075-3591), our quarterly print journal, is a forum for communicating news and ideas, as well as regularly reporting the results of PRRAC-sponsored research, the advocacy work that research has assisted, and other relevant topics. Each issue lists in the Resources Section recent reports and studies on race/poverty issues.

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