Concentrated poverty and racial and socioeconomic isolation compound problems associated with student and family poverty and pose further barriers to student success.
- Brookings Institute reports – The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s and The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty, 2000 to 2008-2012 – document these problems in communities of concentrated poverty, including higher crime rates, underperforming public schools, poor housing and health conditions, as well as limited access to quality public and private services and economic opportunity.
- The Urban Institute report, High-poverty schools undermine education for children of color, points to mixed-use housing and multi-zone school district as policy fixes.