LEARNING AREA: Economic Development, Racial Equity
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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.