Whites still make up our largest racial group, at 44 percent, but our highest diversity rate reflects the fact that we now have a stronger mix between other races. The largest ethnic group in Boston is Irish, which accounts for 15.8% of the population, followed by Italians with 8.3% of the population. People of Antillean descent make up 6% of Boston's population, and some areas have seen a large amount of immigration from Vietnam recently, while other areas are seeing an increase in the number of Dominican Americans. South Asians account for a substantial amount of Boston's immigration, and the city has the tenth largest Indian population in the United States.
The highest high school graduation rate is among whites, with a rate of 96.25%. The highest rate of bachelor's degrees is among whites, with a rate of 70.99%. The poverty rate among those who worked full-time during the last 12 months was 1.90%. Among those who worked part-time, it was 23.80 per cent, and for those who did not work, the poverty rate was 39.67 per cent.
It also provides information on the separate Globe-commissioned survey of Boston's national reputation, which compared us to Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Charlotte, San Francisco, Miami and Philadelphia. The government established the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in a tactic to bring the construction industry to life and get people back to work. Some agents began to speculate, buying houses below market value from white people who were led to sell them in panic and sell them to black families for much more than they were worth. People who were once forced to live in certain neighborhoods in Boston are being forced to leave those places now that they see them desirable in the eyes of white people.
Even though a thriving economy fuels the construction boom downtown, Black residents in Massachusetts are twice as likely as their white counterparts to be unemployed. However, racial segregation was already underway in Boston in the mid to late 19th century, according to Brown University professor of sociology John Logan, who says that at that time it was most likely the result of individual decisions not to sell or rent to blacks. Today, there are 10 census districts that have a white population of 88 percent to 97.7 percent in a city that is mostly minority. Doing so, advocates say, will not only expand the area's housing stock, stop rising home prices in Boston proper, but will also allow more people of color to move to the suburbs.
Although around 334,000 black people live in the metropolitan Boston region, few of them can be found in the city's most iconic landmarks. Overall, landlords ignored nearly 45 percent of emails from potential renters with black-sounding names, such as Darnell Washington or Keisha Jackson, versus 36 percent of emails from people with white-sounding names, such as Brendan Weber or Meredith McCarthy. Because the FHA believed that property values would decrease if blacks moved to a neighborhood, its insurance manual provided a guideline stating that “properties will continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes, and the agency routinely refused to secure developments other than exclusively were either too close or accessible to black neighborhoods. Flint lived on the black side of the housing project and never set foot on the other side, which was designated for whites.
Jacquetta Van Zandt, host of the Politics and Prosecco podcast and owner of a home in Roxbury, said she is shocked by the new data, although she understands why blacks in the city are moving elsewhere. Real estate agents had long ago removed the racist code of ethics from their walls, but Cohen says multiple studies and audits from the late 1990s and 2000s revealed that agents, without saying or doing anything overtly racist, often gave whites more information and showed them more homes in more cities that black shoppers. Collier, who had just graduated from historic Black Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, had the very clear impression that there weren't many people of color here. .
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