
Joe Cortright on Gentrification
The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Social Problem of the Next Generation
When we started building places after world war two on the outskirts of our cities, and the whole horizontal expansion, an, we were building largely middle class homes. Now that we have this kind of inversion going on, it feels like we are on the verge of essentially doing the reverse. Weare abandoning a lot of impoverished people on the edge of the cities and concentrating affluence back into other neighborhoods. I've called this the social problem of the next generation. It's still the case that that poverty rates are higher in the centere, almost everywhere, than they are in the periphery. But that's starting to change.
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