This is a rather thin and 1 dimensional take on economic preferences, particularly something as complicate as housing. What we actually know from history is tha

This is a rather thin and 1 dimensional take on economic preferences, particularly something as complicate as housing. What we actually know from history is that poorer neighborhoods integrated rather freely at the turn of the last centruy because they were cheap and that segregating them required active and ongoing government intervention at all levels of government.