Middle-class neighborhoods, long regarded as incubators for the American dream, are losing ground in cities across the country, shrinking at more than twice the rate of the middle class itself. In their place, poor and rich neighborhoods are both on the rise, as cities and suburbs have become increasingly segregated by income, according to a Brookings Institution study released Thursday. (Washington Post, Thursday)
Considering the housing laws, this had to happen.
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Growth Controls and Individual Liberties by Jonathan Sandy and Dirk Yandell