Center director Paul Jargowsky quoted in ALJAZEERA article on housing segregation Posted July 2, 2014, in News. More Americans live in ‘poverty areas’ due to zoning, suburban sprawl More than 25 percent of Americans lived in a poverty area in 2012, an increase from 18 percent a decade earlier July 1, 2014 6:15PM ET by Dexter Mullins @DexterMullins