Engaging with Suburban Neighborhoods: What’s Different? October 23, 2014 Leah Hendey NNIP Partners Meeting in Denver, CO
Increasing Attention on Poverty in the Suburbs
More Poor People Now Live in Suburbs Source: Adapted from Confronting Suburban Poverty in America (2013).
Concentrated Poverty Is Growing Faster in the Suburbs Metro AreaSuburban Share of Metro Poor Population, 1970 Suburban Share of Metro Poor Population, 2012 Percentage Point Change Atlanta60%88%28 Tampa-St. Pete 44%70%25 New Orleans30%55%25 Washington, DC 47%71%23 Baltimore29%51%22 Source: Adapted from content/uploads/2014/05/Suburban-Poverty-Metrics-2012.xlsxhttp://confrontingsuburbanpoverty.org/wp- content/uploads/2014/05/Suburban-Poverty-Metrics-2012.xlsx
What’s Different? Infrastructure – Political – Service delivery – Data and reporting Policy Solutions
Three Perspectives on Working with Suburban Jurisdictions Meg Merrick, Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies Susan Millea, Children’s Optimal Health Anthony Galvan, Institute for Urban Policy Research, UT-Dallas