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Walker
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When Poverty Grows in the Metro, it Grows in Both Cities and Suburbs
Author: Rolf Pendall
New Data Explained | Posted: August 3rd, 2011

Much attention has been paid in recent years to the suburbanization of poverty. Some attribute this change to policies aimed at making low-income people more mobile, including HOPE VI and housing choice vouchers. Sometimes, the list of forces behind suburban poverty growth extends to displacement of low-income people from revitalized or gentrified central-city neighborhoods.

READ MORE: http://blog.metrotrends.org/2011/08/poverty-grows-metro-grows-cities-and-suburbs/

Posted 9 months ago #
Walker
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Suburbanization of Poverty: What’s New?
Posted on 2011/09/27 by Alon Levy

The current trend toward suburbanization of poverty is worth examining. It is incontrovertible that on the whole, the American poor are moving to the suburbs. Simultaneously, city centers are gentrifying, seeing large increases in income, with an influx of rich and upper middle-class people. This could lead to a French-style geography in which the rich live in central cities and the poor outside them. It’s not my intention to doubt that this trend is happening; my question is whether it represents a break from the past.

READ MORE: http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/suburbanization-of-poverty-whats-new/

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dubdave00
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My neighbors and I were just talking about this. When Dublin closed the 'America's Best' Hotel (Granted, for some understandable health and crime reasons) a block from us, many of the near-poverty / unemployed people staying there were pretty much left of the street.

We still see some of them walking around but have no clue where they're staying. It's definitely visible here if you look for it and has become more visible since the recession hit.

Now, this is not to say the city is headed the way of French suburbs, but I'm certainly not surprised by suburban poverty. I think Dublin is likely home to more 'material poverty' where people over-extended themselves to have a lifestyle they simply can't afford. Now, you have these half empty or 1/4 completed new neighborhoods in the northern, annexed, upscale areas that I have no clue what will happen to.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next decade as we will see changes in energy costs, school funding, transportation technology and efficiency, governmental restructuring and resource sharing, the economy, and cultural shifts like latter-gen xer's and gen yer's starting families. All of those things will impact this stuff and it's pretty tough to say exactly how. Knowing what we know now, cities or denser areas are looking pretty good.

Posted 7 months ago #
cheap
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i live in the burbs right now,but am moving back to the city

where i live now,i see a lot of "garage" businesses.

this underground economy you see a lot in the city,but it's popping up in the burbs more and more

one of my neighbors has some awesome woodworking machinery and makes really nice furniture and cabinets,another neighbor works on cars,another neighbor bought a 2 car trailer and hauls collector cars,and my next door neighbor does DJ work at events and mixes CD's for businesses.

this is just the way it is,i guess.

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Hunger spreads in suburbia
By Mary Beth Lane
The Columbus Dispatch
Monday October 17, 2011 7:00 AM

Food pantries, which traditionally have helped feed poor families in Columbus and in rural Appalachian Ohio, are increasingly opening and expanding in the suburbs.

“ Clearly, this economy, and the lack of jobs, has driven people to food pantries who never used them before,” said Matt Habash, president and chief executive officer of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank.

READ MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/17/hunger-spreads-in-suburbia.html

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Outside Cleveland, Snapshots of Poverty’s Surge in the Suburbs

By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: October 24, 2011

PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — The poor population in America’s suburbs — long a symbol of a stable and prosperous American middle class — rose by more than half after 2000, forcing suburban communities across the country to re-evaluate their identities and how they serve their populations.

The increase in the suburbs was 53 percent, compared with 26 percent in cities. The recession accelerated the pace: two-thirds of the new suburban poor were added from 2007 to 2010.

READ MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/us/suburban-poverty-surge-challenges-communities.html?pagewanted=all

Posted 6 months ago #
Manatee
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I've gotta say, if they're using Parma Heights as a metric, then yeah... things are looking PRETTY bad.

Posted 6 months ago #
cheap
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Manatee said:
I've gotta say, if they're using Parma Heights as a metric, then yeah... things are looking PRETTY bad.

+1 that would be a mindbender there

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Suburban plight for poor
By Maki Becker and Jay Rey
NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
October 29, 2011, 10:02 PM

Buffalo may be one of the poorest cities in America, but a majority of the region's poor now live in suburbia.

Of the 159,000 people in the region living below the poverty line, more than half -- 52 percent -- reside in the suburbs of Erie and Niagara counties, according to an analysis of 2010 census data by a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

Ten years ago, it was 44 percent.

The economy is a major factor behind the emergence of poverty in the suburbs. Also playing a role are the trend of people leaving the city, the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs, the growth of low-wage service jobs and the aging population, experts say.

READ MORE: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article612880.ece

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Poverty’s grip grows in central Ohio

By Mark Ferenchik and Rita Price
Thursday November 3, 2011 7:15 AM

The number of Columbus-area neighborhoods gripped by poverty continues to rise, and not only in the central city but in outlying areas as well.

A report released today by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program says the number of census tracts showing extreme poverty in the city of Columbus increased from eight to 24 over 10 years.

READ MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/11/03/povertys-grip-grows.html

Posted 6 months ago #
Analogue Kid
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^ Those maps are interesting, but the tracts are a bit too coarse it would seem.

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Poverty expanding beyond urban core
By Mark Ferenchik
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday January 25, 2012 5:20 AM

South Side neighborhood leader Deborah Macklin said she thought “everything was OK” in Columbus’ suburbs. But the maps and numbers two researchers presented to 250 community leaders at Veterans Memorial yesterday gave her a new perspective. What struck her most was how poverty has spread throughout Franklin County.

“I was saddened to see it move out of the urban areas, move into the suburbs,” said Macklin, who leads the civic association in the Alum Crest Acres neighborhood south of Rt. 104 near Rt. 33.

READ MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/25/poverty-not-only-in-central-districts.html

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March 19, 2012, 10:55 PM
The New Suburban Poverty
By LISA MCGIRR

In many of America’s once pristine suburbs, harbingers of inner-city blight — overgrown lots, boarded up windows, abandoned residences — are the new eyesores. From the Midwestern rust-belt to the burst housing bubbles of Nevada, California and Florida, even in small pockets of still affluent regions like Du Page County, Ill., the nation’s soaring poverty rates are visibly reclaiming last century’s triumphal “crabgrass frontier.” In well-heeled Illinois towns like Glen Ellyn and Elgin, unkempt, weedy lawns blot the formerly manicured, uniform and tidy landscape.

READ MORE: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/the-new-suburban-poverty/

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cheap
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One recent study conducted by Sean Reardon and Kendra Bischoff of Stanford University documented the spatial sorting by income that is going on, with the wealthy flocking together in new exurbs as well as gentrifying pockets of urban centers.

and the zombies that are gentrified out of urban centers run to the suburbs,like Hilliard and Reynoldsburg.

and the suburban rental mgmt companies and landlords keep the rent cheap,making suburban rentals a magnet for bad news to move in.

and there you go.a new pseudo ghetto is born.

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Snarf
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cheap said:

One recent study conducted by Sean Reardon and Kendra Bischoff of Stanford University documented the spatial sorting by income that is going on, with the wealthy flocking together in new exurbs as well as gentrifying pockets of urban centers.

and the zombies that are gentrified out of urban centers run to the suburbs,like Hilliard and Reynoldsburg.

and the suburban rental mgmt companies and landlords keep the rent cheap,making suburban rentals a magnet for bad news to move in.

and there you go.a new pseudo ghetto is born.

*and once good schools turn ugly with all the future felons filling them up.

Posted 2 months ago #