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Understanding Diverse Neighborhoods in an Era of Demographic Change |
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Immigration is bringing profound changes to urban and suburban neighborhoods across the country. But research on the racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods has lagged, still focusing primarily on traditional, two-way measures of residential segregation and on citywide or metropolitan-wide disparities. At the same time, many housing and community development practitioners are working to promote mixed-income communities, so that lower-income households can enjoy greater access to quality public and private services and to mainstream social and economic opportunities. But surprisingly little is known about the extent of mixed-income neighborhoods in urban and suburban communities today, or about their racial and ethnic diversity. Policymakers and practitioners need new ways to understand patterns of neighborhood diversity (racial, ethnic, and economic) in their communities, and to track changes in these patterns over time. These new typologies certainly do not represent the only meaningful way to categorize neighborhoods, but are designed to provide researchers and practitioners with effective tools for describing the extent of neighborhood diversity and for exploring the implications of diversity for families and communities.
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