Post 8: Quotes From Marquette Law School

According to David Rapke, "The Milwaukee metropolitan area is taking what seems to be its annual beating in the media because of its racially segregated housing patterns." A report from the Brookings Institution from 2005-09 census data, the City of Milwaukee it's neighboring area including Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha Counties are practically matched for first "with Detroit and New York City for the highest degree of black-white residential segregation.  A second study conducted by John Logan of Brown University ranked Milwaukee second in residential segregation by race to only the New York City metropolitan area.  Newark, Detroit, and Chicago were next on Logan’s list."


Pulled Quotes:

"While blacks are concentrated in worn-out center-cities, their inability to move to the suburbs involves income and asset factors more than skin color."

 "The poor – black, white, or Hispanic – live almost completely within the City of Milwaukee, while Ozaukee and Washington Counties rank among only nineteen counties in the entire country with poverty rates below five percent. "

" Second-ring suburbs and outlying towns like New Berlin and West Bend have been in the news lately because of efforts in those towns to prevent the construction of moderately priced rental housing.  If this kind of housing was built, some fear, the urban poor might relocate and try to build lives and raise their kids among the middle and upper classes"