Describes how, in California, the Santa Clara County school system recognizes a responsibility to promote integration, by operating a Planning Resources Office that works to end bias in hosing, which so often has thwarted educators because it permits them to touch only on the edges of the problem. (Author/JM)

This exercise utilizes census tract data in a simulated research project. Students become aware of their own geographic areas by applying census data to a topographical map, thereby determing age, soundness, and occupancy of housing units. (JB)

Contends that the primary question in busing of school children is the neighborhood school and whether it should be continued, returned, or discarded. (DM)

Proposes that the Federal Government should embark on a land-acquisition program for new satellite communities; that antidiscrimination laws should be enforced by lending authorities and savings and loan associations; that existing subsidies for housing should be redirected toward low-income families; and that the government should provide funds…

Analyses and evidence presented suggest that suppliers of low-income housing are caught in a tightening vise of contracting demand and rising costs. (DM)

Suggests that a large portion of white America will try to secure better housing without paying the price of desegregation; and that, on the other hand, if whites and blacks make desegregation a non-negotiable item, there may be still time to undo the work of the past one hundred years--integrate the two races. (Author)

Attempts to determine the basis for the conscious acts and decisions of individuals and organizations which constitute housing discrimination, in order to be able to decide how to intervene most effectively; the racial practices of real estate brokers are held to offer one such point of intervention. (RJ)

Focuses on the factors which influence black residential patterns in Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Seattle; attempts to move a step beyond the traditional demographic projection of changing numbers in time to that of projecting the spatial locus of the population. (RJ)

Stresses the need for a national commitment to provide equal opportunity for minorities by helping them out of the ghetto. (BH)

Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

Examining the adaptation of unauthorized Mexican workers in Los Angeles (California), the study revealed a binational life-style. Rather than giving up ties to Mexico, these workers maintained residences in both countries. Extended residence in the United States resulted in an awareness of the advantages of living in both countries. (NQA)

In answer to criticism of the dissimilarity index in measuring the amount of segregation (occupational and racial) in communities, the author has developed an index which reflects differences between cities possessing concentrated ghettos and those with multiple residential clusters. The proximity measure incorporates spatial qualities directly…

Social science evidence introduced in school desegregation cases now emphasizes demographic factors rather than social psychological data. While a reciprocal relationship exists between the development of legal strategy and the use of social science data, in general, lawyers have guided the selection of social science evidence for courtroom use.…

Reports on the results of applying a multivariate regression model of living arrangement choices to census data on the 1970 U.S. population of nonmarried, nonparenting adults. The central finding was that no special role for the elderly in living arrangement choices existed. (Author)