“…‘The myth of social mix’ is a longstanding common sense in German planning and beyond (Bayer et al., 2014; Münch, 2009) that turns on the assumption that ‘the moving in of higher-income earners and of educated middle-class German families supposedly makes neighbourhoods better’ (Holm, in Bayer et al., 2014: 8, translation by author). It is called a myth because it is based on a shaky evidentiary foundation that assumes that the problem for people who live in stigmatized, low-income neighbourhoods is that they live among too many poor and racialized people (for discussion and evidence to the contrary, see Drever, 2004; Harlander, 2012; Holm, 2009; Münch, 2009; Oberwittler, 2007; Saville-Smith et al., 2015; Van Ham, 2012). With this as the problem, mixing offers a solution, as a strategy to attempt control of racialized and poor people through a combination of dispersal and proximity (Kipfer and Goonewardena, 2014), though there is ample evidence that this risks displacement and damaging of neighbourhood networks (cf.…”