2010/06/29 by John J. Betancur · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Demographic economics #Economic geography #Economic growth #Economic restructuring #Economics #Ethnic group #Gender studies #Gentrification #Geography #Homelessness and Social Issues #Immigration #Law #Low income #Neighbourhood (mathematics) #Political science #Race (biology) #Restructuring #Sociology #Urban Planning and Governance #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0042098009360680
openalex publication_date 2010/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in their mobility and exchange value resources, lower-income groups depend on such fabrics far more than do the higher income. In fact, they have fewer choices and are most vulnerable to place-based shifts. The case seems especially challenging for minorities who, like European immigrants before them, depend largely on place-based platforms/social fabrics but, unlike them, confront the added factors of race and urban restructuring.