Why High-Poverty Neighborhoods Persist The Role of Precarious Housing

Why do we see persistence, recurrence, and new emergence of concentrated poverty in U.S. cities? In this article, we explore an understudied connection: whether an important part of the built environment—a series of attributes that constitute precarious housing—constitutes a durable substrate on whi...

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Published inUrban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 33 - 65
Main Authors Pendall, Rolf, Theodos, Brett, Hildner, Kaitlin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2016
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Built environment
Cities
Costs
Durability
Emergence
Family income
Hispanic Americans
Households
Housing
Housing costs
Income
Level (quantity)
Neighborhoods
Poverty
Public housing
Substrates
Urban areas
Urban environments
United States > US
USA
concentrated poverty
disadvantaged neighborhoods
built environment
neighborhood change
multifamily housing
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Summary:Why do we see persistence, recurrence, and new emergence of concentrated poverty in U.S. cities? In this article, we explore an understudied connection: whether an important part of the built environment—a series of attributes that constitute precarious housing—constitutes a durable substrate on which concentrated poverty predictably emerges and recurs and if so, how this might vary across the United States. Poverty grew fastest between 2000 and 2005–2009 in tracts that began the decade with high levels of rented one- to four-family housing, multifamily housing, housing between 20 and 25 years old, and households paying over 30% of their income for housing costs. In addition, poverty grew fastest in tracts with high percentages of black or Hispanic households in 2000.
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ISSN:1078-0874
1552-8332
DOI:10.1177/1078087414563178