HOUSING PREFERENCES AND ATTITUDES OF BLACKS TOWARD HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN METROPOLITAN MIAMI

Significant housing discrimination against Blacks continues to exist i n Metropolitan Miami, as it does in most other large United States cit ies. Blacks in Miami live in neighborhoods that are not nearly as segr egated by socioeconomic status as are Hispanic and non-Hispanic White neighborhoods. This study uses data derived from interviews of 432 Bla ck heads of households living in Miami neighborhoods that are at least 50% Black. Although most of the African Americans interviewed said th ey think their neighborhood is desirable and said they want to live wh ere they do, it is clear that they are not living where they most pref er. They live in predominantly Black neighborhoods because they feel u nwelcome in White neighborhoods and they fear housing discrimination i n the latter. Among other problems, the continued residential concentr ation of Blacks in predominantly Black neighborhoods of mixed socioeco nomic status in Miami results in a bidding up of the price of housing that is left for the less affluent Blacks.