RACIAL-DIFFERENCES IN INTRAURBAN RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY

The literature shows that African-Americans live in lower-quality resi dential environments than their socioeconomic status would predict. Re searchers suggest that African-Americans move within cities less often than whites and/or improve their residential environments less when m oving. Alternatively, African-Americans might move as frequently as wh ites and improve their residential environments as much when they move , but they operate from an initial lower level of quality. The authors examine these possibilities in this article. Their data indicate that African-Americans have a lower rate of intraurban residential mobilit y and improve their residential environments less when they move.