Annual Boden Lecture: Neighborhood Inequality and Public Policy

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While neighborhood inequality has a long history in the United States, it has been especially in the spotlight lately. The sharp neighborhood divide in America today has been prominent in stories about violence and high rates of incarceration in poor African-American communities, gentrification and the loss of working-class neighborhoods, and the fact that upward economic mobility depends in no small part on where one grows up. The current manifestations of neighborhood inequality demand new thinking on public policy interventions.