
Joe Cortright on Gentrification
The Strong Towns Podcast
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What Happened to High Poverty Neighborhoods in 1970?
A census tract averages about four thousand people. Three quarters of them still had poverty rates of 30 % or higher forty years later. The odds if you were living in a high poverty neighborhood in 19 70 that your tract would have gotten better enough, would have gentrified enough to the poverty rate be lower than the national average was one and 20.
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