” The report urged, among other things, deeper research into housing segregation, which is a “fundamental cause of separate-and-unequal schooling.””
Let’s conduct an experiment in New York City where progressives believe these studies. Forcibly redistribute people to ensure a racial balance and income distribution reflective of the city in every apartment building and housing project in the city. Move families from Motts Haven and Hunts Point in the Bronx over to 740 Park Avenue and force the dislocated billionaires and millionaires to move over to the apartments in the Bronx. White progressive billionaires can live in luxurious apartments, or decayed multifamily buildings, side by side with minority fourth generation welfare recipients.
Likewise redistribute the children around the city schools including private schools to achieve racial balance and ensure the income distribution is reflective of the city as a whole.
To make the great experiment a success, let the academics at Harvard and Yale determine what a living wage should be in in the city. Forcibly take the wealth of the rich and redistribute it to the lower classes so they have a living wage. At the same time prohibit the billionaires and millionaires from spending more than the living wage on food, clothing, shelter and discretionary items. Let Paul Krugman select a panel of academics and thinkers to work with him to make all of the arbitrary relocation and income redistribution decisions so we can be sure the experiment is conducted properly and fairly.
Run the largest progressive social experiment in history for five years and measure what happens. I should be enlightening for the participants and the observers.
I love this idea. New York city is a good place to start. How can we implement it. Maybe ex mayor Bloomerburg will be the first to move.