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| Subject: Yawn: Austin 'ranked repeatedly' high for economic segregation--even No. 1 nationally Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:21 pm | |
| An official concerned about government not enforcing fair housing regulations says Austin has long been known to be a city divided.
Greg Casar, who represents District 4 on the Austin City Council, told the Austin American-Statesman in May 2018: "We do have a really serious problem in Austin. We’ve been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."
Economic segregation can briefly be defined as residential division by income.
And has Austin repeatedly been ranked high by that metric?
Casar notes three studies
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2018/may/31/greg-casar/greg-casar-says-austin-ranked-repeatedly-high-econ/
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