Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in ...

Previous research has linked racial residential segregation to a number of poor health outcomes. Yet, the mechanisms that could account for this association remain poorly understood and have seldom ...

In 2020, we had a robust conversation, nationally and locally, around racial justice issues. Many of us in the real estate profession learned for the first time how private industry partnered with the ...

Black History Month in the United States is a time to focus on and celebrate the history of Black Americans. However, as we approach the 70 th anniversary in May of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision ...

Massachusetts has an extensive history of using racial covenants and exclusionary zoning policies to keep people of color out of certain communities, according to a new report released Wednesday that ...

The U.S. must reduce racial residential segregation if it is to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes, according to a recently published study by researchers at Tufts University School of ...

We examine the impact of the expansion of charter schools on racial segregation in public schools, defined using multiple measures of racial sorting and isolation. Our research design utilizes between ...

School segregation based on race and ethnicity is alive and well in the Commonwealth. Where’s the urgency to address it? There seems to be a lot to celebrate this year in the name of racial justice in ...

Construction of Interstate 20 in Atlanta in the early 1960s. (Atlanta Historical Society) As you drive on an interstate highway through almost any American city going to work, taking your children to ...

America has long been subject to the restriction of people to specific spaces based on their race, a phenomenon also known as racial segregation. The nation holds a long history of witnessing African ...

A classroom in a school in Charlotte, North Carolina, as integration got underway in September 1957. The Brown vs. Board of Education decision called integrated public schools “the very foundation of ...