Prof. Orfield Pens Op-Ed for The Guardian US About Residential Segregation

In an op-ed in The Guardian US, Professor Myron Orfield writes about the state of American residential segregation in urban and suburban contexts, and how each plays into how school integration and racial disparities rise and fall. “Integrated areas have the greatest success eliminating racial disparities in education and economic opportunity,” writes Prof. Orfield, director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. “While non-white people in integrated communities have seen improvements in education and employment, non-white residents of segregated urban communities are further behind than ever.” Prof. Orfield adds that, “Critical to stabilizing these suburbs is a renewed commitment to fair housing enforcement, including local stable-integration plans, equitable education policies and incentives that encourage newer, whiter and richer suburbs to build their fair share of affordable units.”