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Recent studies by the Commission on Race and Housing and others, however, point to a vast complex of factors that often do not warrant this conclusion.

There are increasing numbers of neighborhoods that are integrated residentially without great loss of property values, the white population having taken the initiative in preparing the areas for an appreciation of the Negroes' desire for well-kept housing, privacy, etc..

Data on the decline of property values in an area after a new racial group enters it has to be assessed in terms of the trends in property values before the group comes in.

Often they are able to get in only because the area is declining economically.