In spite of the obvious “reciprocal relationship”
between housing and school policy,1 government
housing and education agencies have rarely collaborated
to promote the common goals of racial and
economic integration. Recent efforts to promote
collaboration among housing and school agencies
have focused on place-based interventions to
enhance the learning environment for low income
children in segregated, high poverty schools and
neighborhoods. These are important initiatives,
but working together, government housing and
education planners can do more to address the
underlying conditions of segregation and poverty
concentration that are a major contributor to
unequal neighborhood and school conditions.