'Both education and housing remain highly segregated. It is hard to build bridges while living parallel lives.'
The momentum and direction needed to tackle segregation and deprivation in Northern Ireland is at risk of being lost, a new report has warned.
The paper is the first in a three-part series examining how the region could become a better place to live, particularly for young people. Ann Watt, director of Pivotal, said: "Northern Ireland remains divided in some fundamental ways. Both education and housing remain highly segregated. It is hard to build bridges while living parallel lives."
The report cited figures including that 79% of people would prefer to live in a mixed neighbourhood but only 31% perceive their own area as mixed. She said areas which experienced the worst of the Troubles "tend to have the highest ongoing tensions". "Otherwise we are asking people to settle for peace without prosperity. So far, the dividends of peace have reached some people in Northern Ireland, but not all."
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