ABSTRACT
Differences between blacks moving to and away from the suburbs, however, suggest that continued black suburbanization may lead to convergence of socioeconomic characteristics of suburban blacks and whites. This chapter begins with an overview of sample selection and survey methodology used in the Recent Buyers Survey. True suburbanization dynamics are assessed by comparing black homebuyers moving from central cities to suburbs with those moving within the New Jersey suburbs or from outside the region. This allows disaggregation of the suburban black homebuying population into its component migration streams and also permits comparison of black and white suburban households by origin. The chapter compares blacks buying in all-white versus integrated or all-black neighborhoods and considers the characteristics of whites buying in integrated versus all-white neighborhoods. The residential sorting process inherent in the dynamics of home purchase generates distinctive patterns in the neighborhood distribution of black and white recent homebuyers.
