This article examines the effect of a court-ordered school desegregation plan on neighborhood housing markets in Dallas, Texas. Three market indicators are used: price, housing turnover, and utilization of conventional credit. The analysis suggests that court-ordered school desegregation had no significant effect on any market indicator in any of the five neighborhoods studied.
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