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Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty-not gentrification-is our biggest urban challenge
Author:
Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi, City Observatory
Year:
2014
Description:
This paper examines population change in America's poorest neighborhoods over the past four decades. Contrary to popular belief, gentrification is a rare circumstance, and instead there has been an increase of neighborhoods with concentrated poverty.