1. Issues in American urban centers hw: read pgs. 447-451
APRIL 11, 2018

2. Inner city problems Lack access to services Food deserts
Poor quality housing
Public housing
High crime rates
High poverty rates
Low education levels

4. Redlining
Banking practices that prevented minorities from getting home loans

6. Adam ruins everything: redlining

7. Blockbusting Encourage white homeowners to sell homes at a loss
Fear that minorities were moving in to their previously segregated neighborhoods
Leads to “white flight”

8. Segregation

9. School Segregation

10. Gentrification

11. Gentrification Process of renewal and reinvestment in inner city areas
Value and cost of living in gentrified neighborhoods goes up
Influx of middle to upper class residents
Displacement of lower class residents

12. Gentrification

13. Reasons for gentrification
Local govt. wants to raise tax revenue
Higher property value = higher property taxes
Millennials and retired suburbanites moving back into cities
Access to transport, culture, restaurants, work
Rental units with interesting architecture
American culture of change and moving

17. Measuring gentrification
Turnover rates in rental units
Income levels of residents over time
Types of businesses that are opened/closed in a neighborhood
Community organizations
Property values and tax rates over time

18. Gentrification PROS CONS Increases property values
Increased local taxes
Beautification of neighborhoods
Job opportunities
Raising property values or rent pushes out lower income residents
Loss of historic culture of a neighborhood
Less income/racial diversity