Justice
The Direct Link Between Income Inequality and Affordable Housing
A new Brookings report shows where economic disparities are rising in U.S. urban areas.
Income inequality is one way to measure the economic disparities between the rich and the poor. That gap tends to be more stark within America’s urban areas, compared with the nation as a whole. It also continues to grow in both cities and metros across the country, a new analysis by Brookings Institution finds.
The authors, Alan Berube and Natalie Holmes, summarize the report’s findings: