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Metropolitan & Regional Inequalities We are committed to generating and synthesizing research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked. The Civil Rights Project has focused attention on the structure of economic and social opportunities created by the intersection of housing, education, transportation, growth, workforce and other policies, all within a context of often dramatic demographic changes. The challenges call for a renewed, creative focus on the unfinished antidiscrimination agenda. Equally important, however, is defining and pursuing a new agenda that recognizes the structural, multi-layered impediments to opportunities faced in minority communities. The most obvious, although often overlooked, is the interrelationship between housing and schools, especially residential segregation by class and race. Other topics are less familiar, such as the relationship between racial justice and "smart growth", or racial justice evaluations of metropolitan transportation planning.Our most recent work related to metro and regional inequalities includes:
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