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Gentrification in America Report
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 02, 2015 09:48pm |
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| Author | Mike Maciag |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 3, 2015 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Dramatic changes are playing out across parts of urban America, making many neighborhoods hardly recognizable from a relatively short time ago. A new class of more affluent residents is moving into once underinvested and predominately-poor communities. Development has followed, typically accompanied by sharp increases in housing prices that can displace a neighborhood’s longtime residents. It’s a scenario known as gentrification, and one that presents a growing dilemma for policymakers.
To assess the extent to which gentrification has reshaped urban communities, Governing analyzed Census tract data for the nation’s 50 largest cities.
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