Ask HN: Disrupting housing segregation in the US?

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9 years ago

The impact of housing and educational segregation based on race and ethnicity in the US have been documented and debated for over a century[1]. Is there any technology or processes that might be a game changer here?

I realize that the HN community is no doubt divided on whether racial segregation is a good thing or not -- and it is good that it is debated in a thoughtful and rigorous fashion.

But in this question I look at the impact on my immediate community [2] in terms of class and economic mobility, and think that there must be some disruptive approaches that can be explored.

As HUD looses it's bite [3] what's next? An AirBnB for achieving integrated neighborhoods? An app to suss out red lining? Curious.

I realize that this is a US-biased question. Also curious to know if there are lessons and struggles to learn from globally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_segregation_in_the_United_States

[2] https://southernspaces.org/2015/segregations-new-geography-atlanta-metro-region-race-and-declining-prospects-upward-mobility

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/ben-carson-housing-urban-development-trump.html

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