Research Catalog

Title

The housing divide : how generations of immigrants fare in New York's housing market / Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman.

Author

Rosenbaum, Emily.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Friedman, Samantha R.

Description

vii, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next. Through a careful read of such factors as home ownership, housing quality, and neighborhood rates of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage pregnancy, and educational achievement, Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman provide a detailed portrait of neighborhood life and socio-economic status for the immigrants of New York. The book paints an important, if disturbing, picture. The authors argue that not only are Blacks - regardless of generation - disadvantaged relative to members of other racial/ethnic groups in their ability to obtain housing in high-quality neighborhoods, but that housing and neighborhood conditions actually decline over generations. Rosenbaum and Friedman's findings suggest that the future of racial inequality in this country will increasingly isolate Blacks from all other groups. In other words, the "color line" may be shifting from a line separating Blacks from Whites to one separating Blacks from all non-Blacks."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Immigrants > Housing
• Social stratification
• Discrimination in housing
• Assimilation (Sociology)
• Immigrants > Housing > New York (State) > New York
• Einwanderer
• Assimilation <Soziologie>
• Social stratification > New York (State) > New York
• Blacks > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions
• Blacks > Social conditions
• Soziale Schichtung
• New York (State) > New York
• Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > New York
• Assimilation (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York
• Wohnen
• New York <NY>

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.

Contents

Movin' on up : Understanding locational attainment -- Immigration, race/ethnicity, and housing in New York through 1970 -- The new New Yorkers : immigration from the 1970s to the present -- Assimilation or stratification? predicting housing and neighborhood conditions for New York City households -- Patterns of locational attainment by race/ethnicity : Is there evidence of segmented assimilation? -- Conclusions and policy implications.

ISBN

• 9780814775905
• 081477590X

LCCN

• 2006026229
• 99982983475
• 9780814775905

OCLC

• ocm70884980
• 70884980
• SCSB-5295415

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries