1. Ch 13 KI #3

2. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Inner-city physical issues
Most significant = deteriorating housing
Filtering – subdividing large houses into smaller apartments for rent by lower-income people
Redlining – drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which banks will refuse to loan money

6. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Public housing reserved for low income households, must pay 30 percent of income for rent

8. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Urban renewal – cities buy “run down” areas from landowners, clear the site and build new roads and utilities

9. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Renovated housing
Gentrification – middle-class people move into deteriorated neighborhoods and renovate the housing.

10. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Inner-city social issues
The underclass
An unending cycle of social and economic issues
Homelessness
Culture of poverty
Elvis “In the ghetto”

11. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?
Inner-city economic issues
Eroding tax base
Cities can either reduce services or raise taxes
Impact of the recession
Housing market collapse