• In 2022, 12.5 percent of people of color lived in high-poverty neighborhoods, compared to 3.6 percent of the white population—a gap of about 9 percentage points. In 1990, this gap was 22 percentage points.
• Nationwide the percent of Black people living in high-poverty neighborhoods has decreased by nearly half since 1990.
• While Black people were most likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods in 1990, Native Americans are now most likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods. 
• South Dakota has the highest percentage of Native American residents living in high-poverty neighborhoods. About 1 in 2 Native Americans in South Dakota live in high-poverty neighborhoods.
• Detroit, MI has the highest percentage of residents living in high-poverty neighborhoods at 55 percentage points. 

People of color are more likely to live in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty due to the long history of racial segregation in the United States. This segregation was forged through historical practices such as the expropriation of land from Indigenous people, racially exclusive housing covenants, and redlining. While many of these practices were explicitly aimed at Black Americans, they laid the foundation for patterns of segregation among other marginalized racial groups. Today, segregation is maintained through practices like discrimination in mortgage lending and exclusionary zoning policies. Segregation has led to the dispossession of communities of color and their exclusion from economic prosperity while enabling White communities to accumulate wealth and resources.

• Require or incentivize the inclusion of affordable housing within new developments using inclusionary zoning, community benefits agreements, density bonuses, housing trust funds, or other tools.
• Implement equitable economic development and community wealth-building strategies that bring jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and business opportunities to residents of high-poverty neighborhoods.
• Ensure enforcement of fair housing laws and the application of HUD's commitment to "affirmatively further fair housing."
• Dismantle exclusionary zoning policies and develop new affordable homes in high-opportunity neighborhoods.
• At the federal level, require Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insured banks to provide high quality and affordable mortgage products to Black and Latinx households, establish a program to assist with down payment and closing costs for those who currently live or grew up in historically redlined communities, and ensure that federal housing programs reduce negative impacts of gentrification.

• Reports: Key Strategies to Advance Equitable Growth in Regions; Separating Fact from Fiction to Design Effective Inclusionary Housing Programs; Poverty Fact Sheet: Suburban Poverty; The Changing Geography of US Poverty

• Data: The Opportunity Atlas