The Yale Law Journal

VOLUME
127
2017-2018
Collection

Responses to David Schleicher, Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation

This Collection provides a series of Responses to David Schleicher’s Article, Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation, published in Issue 1. Naomi Schoenbaum, Sheila Foster, Sara Pratt, and Michelle Anderson engage with Schleicher’s central ideas regarding declining interstate mobility.

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Stuck or Rooted? The Costs of Mobility and the Value of Place

Naomi Schoenbaum

Naomi Schoenbaum addresses the costs of mobility for productivity, welfare, and sex equality, as well as addresses Schleicher’s treatment of place as a market. Ultimately, Schoenbaum argues that Schleicher’s argument does not sufficiently account for how mobility interacts with critical relationship…

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The Limits of Mobility and the Persistence of Urban Inequality

Sheila R. Foster

Sheila Foster argues that Schleicher’s prescriptions neglect the economic and racial stratification of disadvantaged populations within the successful metropolitan regions he hopes new migrants will enter. The federal government should help bridge the spatial gap between that opportunity and disadva…

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Civil Rights Strategies To Increase Mobility

Sara Pratt

Sara Pratt contends that established and sustained segregation has impeded mobility. Federal leadership, changes to the Fair Housing Act, different approaches to state and local planning, and ultimately, political will may clear the path for increased mobility across state and regional lines.

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Losing the War of Attrition: Mobility, Chronic Decline, and Infrastructure

Michelle Wilde Anderson

Michelle Anderson maintains that providing assistance will take more than reducing formal legal barriers to interstate mobility. Meaningful improvements—whether social or geographic—will require a new antipoverty agenda for declining regions, as well as fiscal and environmental responsibility for ex…