Poverty Area Diffusion: The Depopulation Hypothesis Examined

Greene, Richard P.

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“…Poverty-concentrated tracts are defined as tracts where 40% or more of its residents are poor. The 40% cutoff has been commonly used as an indicator of extreme poverty (Green, 1991;Jargowsky & Bane, 1991;Wilson 1987), and it is based on empirical observation that as the neighborhood reaches a 40% and over poverty rate, the tract looks like a "ghetto" neighborhood in terms of its housing conditions (Jargowsky & Bane, 1991). In this table, the entry "Latino in 1980" refers to all tracts that were 50% or more Latino in 1980, regardless of whether or not they were Latino in 1990.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Characteristicsmentioning

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Latino Neighborhoods and Latino Neighborhood Poverty

Enchautegui

1997

Journal of Urban Affairs

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In this article, I use 1980 and 1990 US census tracts that were 50% or more Latino to present a socioeconomic portrait of Latino neighborhoods and to investigate the determinants of poverty and the factors behind the poverty increase of Latinos in these neighborhoods. Results show that Latinos in Latino tracts rank worse than US Latinos on virtually all socioeconomic measures. Recent immigrants raise Latino neighborhood poverty, while long-term immigrants reduce it. The 1979 to 1989 increase in poverty in Latino neighborhoods can be explained better by changes in the payoffs of the characteristics that affect poverty than by changes in the value of these characteristics. Changes in the industrial composition of employment had a relatively large poverty-increasing effect.Data from the 1980 and 1990 Population Censuses were used to develop a socioeconomic profile of Latino neighborhoods and to examine the causes of poverty in these neighborhoods. The findings revealed that Latino residents of Latino neighborhoods ranked lower in nearly all measures of economic distress than Latinos in non-Latino communities. The worsening poverty rate in Latino neighborhoods between 1979 and 1989 was attributed to changes in the payoffs of the factors that affect poverty.

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Section: Socioeconomic Characteristicsmentioning

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Latino Neighborhoods and Latino Neighborhood Poverty

Enchautegui

1997

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…Three general hypotheses have been advanced to explain this trend. First, some scholars focus on the spatial impacts of class-selective migration (Greene 1991a(Greene , 1994Wilson 1980Wilson , 1987. For example, it is commonly believed that the concentration of poverty within certain neighborhoods is the result of populations with higher incomes moving out.…”

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The Impact of Compositional and Redistributive Forces on Poverty Concentration

Strait

2001

Urban Affairs Review

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Changes in poverty concentration have been shown to result from intrametropolitan forces that redistribute population among neighborhoods and metropolitan-wide forces that alter the overall population composition of metropolitan areas. The author examines the degree to which these two forces affected levels of poverty concentration within the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan region from 1980 to 1990. Although redistributive forces functioned to increase poverty concentration, these forces were overwhelmed by the aggregate increase in the nonpoor over the time period. As a result, both the African-American and white poor were slightly less residentially exposed to poverty in 1990 than in 1980. However, the African-American poor were also less exposed to nonpoor African-Americans and whites. Evidence suggests that poor populations in Atlanta did make residential moves that would reduce their spatial isolation, but such moves were overwhelmed by the residential movement of the nonpoor.

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“…There is consensus that poverty concentration stems from the combination of three distinct, yet somewhat related, processes. In attempting to explain the causal factors behind poverty concentration, many scholars have noted the impact of class‐sensitive migration (Wilson 1980, 1987, 1996; Greene 1991, 1994). For example, one hypothesis argues that poverty concentration arises in certain neighborhoods simply as a result of populations with higher incomes moving out.…”

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Poverty Concentration in the Prismatic Metropolis: The Impact of Compositional and Redistributive Forces Within Los Angeles, California, 1990–2000

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2006

Journal of Urban Affairs

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The degrees to which poor populations are spatially concentrated within metropolitan areas are influenced by two sets of forces. In this article, I refer to the first set of forces as redistributive forces, which includes intrametropolitan forces that redistribute populations among different neighborhoods. The second set of forces includes metropolitan-wide processes that alter the relative poverty composition of the overall metropolitan population. These latter processes are referred to here as compositional forces. This research investigates the degrees to which these two sets of forces impacted poverty concentration among racial and ethnic groups within Los Angeles County, CA from 1990 to 2000. Both forces generally functioned to increase poverty concentration among all groups considered, with compositional forces having the stronger effect. Evidence suggests that the residential experiences of poor whites, African Americans, and Hispanics were strongly influenced by the migratory behavior of the nonpoor in Los Angeles. The Asian population, however, exhibited some evidence of ethnic (or racial) ''self-selectivity,'' as this population exhibited less interclass segregation over time. Despite increased poverty concentration, findings demonstrate that Los Angeles became slightly less segregated by race and ethnicity during the 1990s.Over time, researchers have expressed considerable interest in the residential environments of the urban poor in the United States. In recent decades, poorer urban populations have become increasingly concentrated within neighborhoods that are segregated from those inhabited by the nonpoor. This has been particularly true in the case of the minority poor. Concern for the consequences of this spatial arrangement has increased recently as a result of a growing literature focusing on ''neighborhood effects'' (Brewster

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Poverty Area Diffusion: The Depopulation Hypothesis Examined

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Latino Neighborhoods and Latino Neighborhood Poverty

Latino Neighborhoods and Latino Neighborhood Poverty

The Impact of Compositional and Redistributive Forces on Poverty Concentration

Poverty Concentration in the Prismatic Metropolis: The Impact of Compositional and Redistributive Forces Within Los Angeles, California, 1990–2000

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