Displacement or Succession?

2005/01/25 by Lance Freeman · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies #Urban Planning and Governance #Rural development and sustainability

paper · doi:10.1177/1078087404273341

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Abstract

This article examines the extent to which gentrification in U.S. neighborhoods is associated with displacement by comparing mobility and displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods with mobility and displacement in similar neighborhoods that did not undergo gentrification. The results suggest that displacement and higher mobility play minor if any roles as forces of change in gentrifying neighborhoods. Demographic change in gentrifying neighborhoods appears to be a consequence of lower rates of intra neighborhood mobility and the relative affluence of in-movers.

Citations

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