How New Jersey's Levittown Became 70% Black

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Seth Brown

28 June 2003 - 11:00am

A look at New Jersey's Levittown (now called Willingboro), how it became majority African-American, and why residents' housing values keep falling.

"A vibrant, diverse suburban community. A thriving suburb with big yards, good schools, and little crime. A robustly middle-class population -- with an African-American majority. Welcome to today's Levittown."

Full Story: The Other Levittown: Race and Place in Willingboro, NJ

Source: The Next American City, June 27, 2003

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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.

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