Giving Compass' Take:

· Urban Institute shares the research of Gregory Acs, Rolf Pendall, Mark Treskon and Amy Khare on the cost of racial residential segregation in America.

· How do economic and racial segregation relate? What can be done to address this matter?

· Check out this article on health, housing and civil rights strategies. 

Policymakers and advocates have spent decades trying to respond to the reality and consequences of racial residential segregation. Recently, there has been a growing effort to confront rising levels of economic segregation as well.

While substantial evidence exists on the harms of segregation for people with lower incomes or racial and ethnic minorities, its effect on regional outcomes has been less clear.

Urban’s report addresses these questions and concerns by analyzing the 100 most populous commuting zones (which are similar to metropolitan areas) between 1990 and 2010. We found that one pattern holds across all of our measurements: economic segregation impedes the economic progress of a region’s residents, but particularly its black residents.

Read the full article about the cost of segregation by Gregory Acs, Rolf Pendall, Mark Treskon and Amy Khare at Urban Institute.