High-Poverty Neighborhood

A High-Poverty Neighborhood is a residential area with a high poverty rate.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) have Poor Housing, Poor Schools, Poor Infrastructure, few Grocery Stores, and few Health Care Facilities.
  • It can range from being a High-Crime High-Poverty Neighborhood to being a Low-Crime High-Poverty Neighborhood.
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• Example(s):
  • … in San Juan, PR.
  • … in McAllen, TX.
  • … in Fresno, CA.
  • … in El Paso, TX.
  • … in Augusta, GA.
  • … in Modesto, CA.
  • city center in Stockton, CA.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Low-Poverty Neighborhood.
• See: Affluent Neighborhood, High-Crime Neighborhood.

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References

2016

• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/police-violence-american-epidemic-american-consent.html
  • QUOTE: We keep talking about choices, but we don’t talk nearly enough about the fact that choices are always made within a cultural and historical context. People didn’t simply choose to live in neighborhoods with poor housing and poor schools and crumbling infrastructure and few grocery stores and fewer adequate health care facilities. There were many factors that created those neighborhoods: white flight, and the black flight of wealthier black people, community disinvestment, business lending practices and government policies assigning infrastructure and public transportation to certain parts of cities and not others. And the people living in those communities — sometimes trapped in those communities — make choices, sometimes poor ones, within that context.

2014

• (Kneebone, 2014) ⇒ Elizabeth Kneebone. (2014). “The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty, 2000 to 2008-2012.” In: The Brookings, July 31, 2014.
  • QUOTE: While poverty increased and spread in the 2000s, it also became more concentrated in high-poverty and economically distressed neighborhoods, and those neighborhoods were increasingly located in the suburbs. …

    … The challenges of poor neighborhoods — including worse health outcomes, higher crime rates, failing schools, and fewer job opportunities — make it that much harder for individuals and families to escape poverty and often perpetuate and entrench poverty across generations.2

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