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The purpose of this article is to document some aspects of housing discrimination, changing neighborhoods, and public schools in the U.S. The problem of segregated housing, discrimination in housing, and changing neighborhoods has been the existence of residential areas of homogenous status and class character in a society. Data are numerous confirming the use of education as a major vehicle for social mobility in the country. Put together, then, the mobility patterns of individuals, the use of the educational process as a major vehicle of mobility for one's children, the class character of schools, and the need to express one's status or status aspirations by one's area of residence, and an additional insight into the factors maintaining and breaking down the stability of status of residential neighborhoods is the result. |