ABSTRACT
Reformers oriented to the urban ghetto have generally sought various objectives that they have seen as closely linked—to promote desegregation and to obtain better housing and education for the poor. Efforts to desegregate housing, however, have been roundly defeated by massive white opposition. Another general approach to desegregation takes the form of housing subsidies. Many programs intended to advance Negroes economically by education and job training have only tenuous be aring on their housing. As in the case of housing, the coupling of measures for integration of education with measures to improve existing conditions in large-city ghettos must lead to the defeat of both. To emphasize the importance of upgrading ghetto housing is also to accept racially homogeneous elementary schools in large cities, at least for the foreseeable future. Integrated education has been one of the central goals of reformers, and few seem prepared to relinquish the objective.
