Government housing control can reduce neighborhood segregation

Evidence

Toil, 1969. It remains to be seen how successful recent attempts in the United States to “scatter” public housing among affluent neighborhoods will be. But at least in one European city where access to housing is governmentally controlled, the segregation of social groups by neighborhood appears to be waning (Musil, 1968). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1134

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which European city did Musil study, and how was housing allocation structured? Worth chasing for comparative weight.
• XREF: connects to: New housing developments reliably produce Republican voting enclaves — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 590; Residential segregation is an artifact of municipal policy, not of individual white choices — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 29; Suburban racial innocence made government housing segregation almost unthinkable as a personal concern — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 42