Consequences From the Redistribution of Urban Poverty During the 1990s: A Cautionary Tale

George C. Galster
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George C. Galster: Wayne State University

Economic Development Quarterly, 2005, vol. 19, issue 2, 119-125

Abstract: Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, the recent spatial redistribution of the urban poor does not necessarily bode well for the future. During the 1990s, the share of metropolitan population living in census tracts with high percentages (more than 40%) of poverty indeed fell significantly, but the shares with 10% to 20% and 20% to 40% poverty rates each rose 1 percentage point. These latter shifts are worrisome because many neighborhoods may have been pushed over their thresholds where poverty concentrations start to create significant external effects for neighbors.

Keywords: concentrated poverty; threshold effects; neighborhoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0891242404273981

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