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Specifically, I'm wondering whether the location of section 8 housing projects, community development spending, and other publicly or privately supported community initiatives have been shown to take census racial data into consideration when choosing target areas.

And I know a lot of you are going to reply to this saying "of course they do because everything in our society is designed to attack and humiliate whites and give their money to 'minorities'." That's fine and generally I agree with that sentiment, but I'm looking to see if there's something more concrete we could point to as evidence.

It's so hard to search for this kind of info on the internet.

Specifically, I'm wondering whether the location of section 8 housing projects, community development spending, and other publicly or privately supported community initiatives have been shown to take census racial data into consideration when choosing target areas. And I know a lot of you are going to reply to this saying "of course they do because everything in our society is designed to attack and humiliate whites and give their money to 'minorities'." That's fine and generally I agree with that sentiment, but I'm looking to see if there's something more concrete we could point to as evidence. It's so hard to search for this kind of info on the internet.

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They don't really get into the specifics here, but this census bureau page seems to indicate this information is used to the detriment of whites:

https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-question/race/

Race data are used in planning and funding government programs that provide funds or services for specific groups.

and

race data are used to:
- Establish and evaluate the guidelines for federal affirmative action plans under the Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program.
- Monitor compliance with the Voting Rights Act and enforce bilingual election requirements.
- Monitor and enforce equal employment opportunities under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Identify segments of the population who may not be getting needed medical services under the Public Health Service Act.
- Allocate funds to school districts for bilingual services under the Bilingual Education Act.

Based on those two pieces of information, it sounds like a benefit of being in a 'minority' neighborhood on the census might be a higher likelihood of recapturing some of your tax dollars in community development spending. And maybe a downside would be increased kvetching about inequality?