Structural racism from segregated housing to limited job opportunities responsible for high rate

#housing

Racial discrimination was once an explicit part of housing laws, regulations, and practices, which created unequal access to opportunity and wealth through intentional community and housing segregation by race. While the laws have changed, the impact of decades of institutionalized discrimination combined with new modern ways to discriminate, continues to have a profound effect on Spatial Racism or the geographic segregation of race, wealth, and opportunity.