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Please read the rest of my post and not just cherry pick. I said they're being incentivized to. But not physically forced as per Jim Crow era.
You think they are incentivized by Section 8 housing and the projects?
Do you know the historical barriers to land and property ownership that were explicitly part of the law until the Civil Rights Act?
Are you aware of the strictures placed on many poor black families who want to try and get out? This was just in the news a couple of weeks ago:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/perspectives/housing-discrimination/index.html
It doesn't go into a ton of detail, but it does a decent job of explaining the ways that racism in the housing industry is still quite systematic. Even if such discrimination isn't exactly 'legal'?
Famiies try to get out - here's a story of a family that sent their daughter to a school she wasn't zoned to, but she was cast out. And that leads a podcast into the realities of housing discrimination today:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/512/house-rules
"Where you live is important. It can dictate quality of schools and hospitals, as well as things like cancer rates, unemployment, or whether the city repairs roads in your neighborhood. On this week's show, stories about destiny by address."
There are still a ton of barriers, explicit and implicit, that impair geographical movement directly. Then there are things like very limited educational opportunities - many segregated themselves - that indirectly, but significantly, impact things like home ownership, moving out of troubled neighborhoods.
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