After poverty reduction : trajectories of U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped high poverty during the 1990s

Chunhui REN*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Based on the Neighborhood Change Database, this study tracks U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped the high-poverty category during the poverty reduction trend in the 1990s and explores their poverty transition patterns in the subsequent decade. Escaped neighborhoods exhibit a significant propensity to relapse back into high poverty. This study found several neighborhood characteristics to be associated with a neighborhood’s ability to resist poverty relapse, such as high educational attainment and residential stability of the inhabitants. Homeownership is also found to be a neighborhood stabilizer, but its effect varies by specific racial and ethnic groups.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)113-136
Number of pages24
JournalUrban Research and Practice
Volume12
Issue number2
Early online date6 Nov 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

  • homeownership
  • housing
  • neighborhood
  • poverty
  • race

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