URBN PL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Affordable Housing, White Flight, Rent Regulation
15 May 2020
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3 key factors to understand gentrification: historic conditions: policies and practices, investment and disinvestment patterns in central cities, community impacts. Appealing (historic) housing styles, in some cases (ie charm ) Ex: mission district in sf (old colorful townhomes), boyle heights in la. Change in percent non-hispanic (mostly whites coming in) Gentrification and displacement present here for the last 3 decades. Along with growing economic inequality, changing location of preferences of individuals. In la country, the number of gentrified neighborhoods increased by 16% between 1990-2015. Sd has experienced greatest increase in share of gentrified neighborhoods (18%) In both decades, oc has the greatest share of disadvantaged neighborhoods or susceptible to gentrification (~43%) Many aspects of gentrification process are desirable: For decades, city governments have been trying to: Gentrification does all of these for underinvested neighborhoods. In general, gentrification is good for disadvantaged communities. Low income neighborhoods have to assume burden of changes.
