After poverty reduction: trajectories of U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped high poverty during the 1990s

Chunhui Ren

Urban Research & Practice, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, 113-136

Abstract: Based on the Neighborhood Change Database, this study tracks U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped the high-poverty category during the poverty reduction trend in the 1990s and explores their poverty transition patterns in the subsequent decade. Escaped neighborhoods exhibit a significant propensity to relapse back into high poverty. This study found several neighborhood characteristics to be associated with a neighborhood’s ability to resist poverty relapse, such as high educational attainment and residential stability of the inhabitants. Homeownership is also found to be a neighborhood stabilizer, but its effect varies by specific racial and ethnic groups.

Date: 2019
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