UM: Class Segregation

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Experts from the University of Michigan are among those quoted in a Michigan Radio report about how income disparities are shaping neighborhoods. June Manning Thomas, a professor at UM’s Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, observes: “We’ve created laws that essentially make it clear that purposefully setting up racial segregation is illegal, but we haven’t done that for class segregation. So, it’s perfectly legal for people to refuse to live near someone of a different social-economic status. And it’s not only legal, it’s enabled and it’s even praised.” [Source]