Keep fighting for St. Louis
Evidence also suggests that when average incomes tend to rise in a neighborhood relative to its surrounding areas, the racial demographics of the areas are slower to change. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey, for example, finds that the lessening of poverty in US neighborhoods between 1970 and 2000 is not associated with white residents displacing blacks
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we de... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
The middle-class African American enclave of Liberty City began to change earlier, in the 1960s, when I-95 was built right through Overtown, displacing residents. And as a result of changes wrought by the civil rights movement, middle-class Black people started to move into neighborhoods previously covered by racially restrictive covenants that had
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