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This is damning and makes all the more calculating @NYCMayor’s constant refrain that there’s little he can do about school segregation because housing segregation is so entrenched.
But, also, very predictable. Fair housing groups have along fought residential preferences as maintaining segregation.
But I think of everything I saw in this article this was the most damning. Poor black people are simply choosing to live in areas of concentrated disadvantage, crime, food deserts and low-performing schools because: Segregation is a choice. 
With that said, housing policy needs to be nuanced. There needs to be policy that both opens housing to low-income people in high-opportunity areas but that doesn’t exacerbate displacement in gentrifying ones. These are smart folks. It CAN be done.
