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April 20, 2005
The G-Word
Race, housing, and the American city...
First, USA Today's article: "Gentrification drives comparatively few low-income residents from their homes. Although some are forced to move by rising costs, there isn't much more displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods than in non-gentrifying ones.
In a separate study of New York City published last year, Freeman and a colleague concluded that living in a gentrifying neighborhood there actually made it less likely a poor resident would move — a finding similar to that of a 2001 study of Boston by Duke University economist Jacob Vigdor..."
Second, New York Magazine dives into the Bed-Stuy fray: "On a single street, brownstone by brownstone, gentrification and race are colliding, making Bed-Stuy locals wonder what kind of block will be left when it all shakes out..."
Third, a gentrifiers perspective on crime prevention: "I have personally told some hustlers that I don't appreciate their activity on my block and that I would be watching them, they moved on within a day or two..."
Posted by jmarston at April 20, 2005 02:32 PM