Our Chance for Democratic Housing.

According to the author, the most effective method for stabilizing neighborhoods and removing the tensions caused by the competition for dwellings is to provide minorities with the living space they need. The prominent part the fear of infiltration plays in forcing a change in the composition of a neighborhood is confirmed by its absence in certain fixed patterns. In many of the U.S. northern sections, there have always been Negro belts, many of them adjoining the more fashionable sections. The presence of Negroes disturbed neither property values nor social stains.