The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs

Rutan, Devin Q.; Hepburn, Peter; Desmond, Matthew

doi:10.7758/rsf.2023.9.1.05

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“…More practically, it is difficult to get information about nonprofit expenditures at levels of geography below the county, such as at the municipal or neighborhood level. Our operationalization of urban and suburban geography is quite similar to other articles in this issue that examine national data (see Lichter, Thiede, and Brooks 2023 ; Rastogi and Jones-Correa 2023 , this issue; Rutan, Hepburn, and Desmond 2023 ). Similarly, articles in this issue that focus on suburban case studies define those suburban locations in consistent alignment with our approach (see Clergé 2023 ; Frankenburg et al 2023 , this issue; Simms 2023 , this issue; Zapatka and Tran 2023 ).…”

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Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets

Allard

Pelletier

2023

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Poverty in U.S. suburbs surged to historic highs in the early part of the twenty-first century. Although poverty was on the rise in many suburban areas during the 1990s, the recession of 2001 and the Great Recession that ended in 2009 led to dramatic increases in the number of poor people living in suburbs (Berube and Kneebone 2013). Scott Allard (2017) finds that suburbs in the largest hundred metropolitan Volatility and Change in Suburban NonprofitSafety Nets scot t w. a ll a r d a nd eliz a betH pelletier Rising poverty in suburbs has led to increased interest in how well suburban safety nets function. Apart from public assistance programs, community-based nonprofit health and human service organizations play a central role in suburban efforts to address racial and economic inequalities. Understanding how nonprofit services are distributed across the suburban and urban landscape, therefore, is critical to assessing how communities may be able to address need. In this paper, we examine the presence and volatility of nonprofit health and human service expenditures in suburban and urban counties across the United States from 2000 to 2017. We find the nonprofit safety net to be more responsive in urban centers than in suburban places, and less robust in suburban areas experiencing high rates of poverty or with a larger share of residents who are Black. Nonprofit health and human service spending also appears less countercyclical than is commonly understood. Suburban-urban disparities in nonprofit health and human service spending persist after controlling for several county-level demographic and socioeconomic factors.

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Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets

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2023

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“…That the frequency of police killings in suburbs and cities are converging echoes other research showing declining differences between the two metropolitan types. The rates of pov-erty, eviction, immigration, crime, and misdemeanor arrests in suburbs are increasingly resembling those of central cities (Allard and Pelletier 2023, this issue;Rutan, Hepburn, and Desmond 2023;Walker 2019;Beck 2019;Kneebone 2017). Suburban municipalities are ill prepared for this suburbanization of traditionally urban conditions because governmental and nonprofit social safety nets are weaker in suburbs than cities (Allard 2017;Allard and Pelletier 2023, this issue).…”

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confidence: 99%