Choice based lettings has become a major cause of ethnic segregation in England, despite being set up to encourage mixed communities. Heralded as a solution to tensions in the 1990s, the system aimed to create ethnically and socio-economically mixed neighbourhoods in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley. But a study led by the Centre for Housing Research at the University St Andrews found that choice based lettings have effectively segregated communities. The findings suggest that a lack of real choice has forced ethnic minorities to move to deprived neighbourhoods and frequently to neighbourhoods with high concentrations of other ethnic minorities. Read more on Inside Housing.
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