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.