Market-dynamics siting outcomes remain racist once housing discrimination is factored in
Evidence
Let us assume that the current physical distribution of hazardous waste facilities could be attributed to the location of older facilities in neighborhoods that subsequently became populated by poor people of color—that “market dynamics” produced the racially disparate outcomes found in some communities. Even accepting that the siting process is not responsible for all racially disparate outcomes in environmental hazard distribution and that instead the demographics of a given community with a waste facility have changed over time, it is not easy to dismiss the notion that racism or injustice produced the results. If existing racially discriminatory processes in the housing market, for example, contribute to the distribution of environmental hazards, or of people of color, then it is entirely appropriate to call such outcomes unjust, and even racist. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 336
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off the ch7 claim that housing-market discrimination makes free-market choices illusory and that market explanations lack conclusive support. — connects to: Race predicts environmental hazard exposure better than income does — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 294; Housing-market discrimination makes purportedly free market choices illusory — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 317; Environmental racism is a symptom of broader ongoing racial discrimination — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 338 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Present-day white homebuyer behavior, not past policy alone, sustains housing market racism
#corroborates(0.85) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1280 - White homebuyer preferences undermine progressive homeownership proposals for black Americans
#corroborates(0.85) - Down payment assistance fails to close the racial homeownership gap without addressing present-day bias
#corroborates(0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 226 - Neighborhood property values track racial demographics even when income and housing are otherwise identical
#corroborates(0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1233 - Dismantling racism in housing requires confronting both past and present
#expands(0.80) - Racially patterned residential preferences reproduce segregation without overt racism
#corroborates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1783 - Race-conscious homeownership remedies fail when white flight depresses resale values
#exemplifies(0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 483 - Housing discrimination creates a negative feedback loop harming Black property values
#expands(0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 451 - Homeownership fails as a wealth-building tool for Black Americans due to structural discrimination
#expands(0.72) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1376 - Housing investment returns differ systematically by neighborhood racial composition
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