> And as is usually the case in the US, the racial divide is also an opportunity divide. > Living in certain neighborhoods seems to expand opportunity, and liv

> And as is usually the case in the US, the racial divide is also an opportunity divide. > Living in certain neighborhoods seems to expand opportunity, and living in other neighborhoods seems to diminish it. What I don't get about these policies is that they do zero to actually address the problem and instead just shift things around. If you have good neighborhood A and bad neighborhood B, taking a handful of people from B and relocating them to A does nothing to actually address the problems in B for those that remain in B. B continues to B bad. The solution that should be pursued is how to make B as good as A. Once B is as good as A, people from B will naturally migrate to A and people from A will migrate to B. This is essentially what gentrification accomplishes. The problem with gentrification is that is pushes people in B out to some other bad neighborhood C. It seems to me that this being the case, the ideal scenario is to figure out how to gentrify B without displacing those in B to C. What you want is good influences found in A to dilute the bad influences in B until the bad influences are extinguished.