Td. Boswell et al., HOUSING PREFERENCES AND ATTITUDES OF BLACKS TOWARD HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN METROPOLITAN MIAMI, Urban geography, 19(3), 1998, pp. 189-210
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.