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are there any developed countries with large immigrant/minority populations that do not consciously place the affordable accommodations most likely to house them in locations far removed from the most desirable locations? In the UK and France, people desire the center of the city and thus affordable housing is located, generally, at the periphery of such cities. Having personally supplied the 'diversity' at many mostly white educational institutions, I come to expect people who laud diversity in theory to find creative ways to avoid it in practice and I cannot fault them for doing so, especially in the short-term, as they rationally refuse the role of guinea pig.
"The Rent is Too Damn High" and Education
We know school desegregation is important because of a growing body of research showing that "peer effects" are correlated with better teacher quality and higher test scores for low-income children. So I've done a lot of reporting and writing about how public schools can racially and socioeconom...
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