Rent Paying Ability and Racial Settlement Patterns

Gary T. Johnson

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1986, vol. 45, issue 1, 17-26

Abstract: Abstract. Based on the belief that the major remaining hurdle to integration is economic, the proposition has frequently been advanced that if minority households could afford decent housing outside their current communities, many would move from their ghettoes into society at large. Evidence from two housing allowance demonstration projects and the recently completed Experimental Housing Allowance Program raises doubts as to the validity of this contention. While recipients of housing allowances frequently moved to better neighborhoods, only rarely were they able to break free of traditional settlement patterns. Findings suggest that while it may be necessary to increase the rent paying abilities of low‐income minority households as a precondition of integration, that segregation is not likely to be eliminated until the social, psychological, and remaining legal issues associated with it are addressed as well.

Date: 1986
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