Impacts of Urban Sprawl and Renewal
The availability of housing and housing price increases continue to impact the poor and low income, especially in areas that have experienced strong and steady economic growth. Recent studies show that the amount of housing for very low-income families, which was already in short supply, is only declining. In areas where housing prices are high, the poor struggle the most with the imbalance between employment and housing, which also includes a need for reasonable wages, transportation, child care and health care as well as basic nutrition. Affordable housing remains unattainable to those with little or no income as the poor continue to struggle under these conditions, in which homeownership becomes elusive.
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Launched by Congress as the federal urban redevelopment program in 1949 under the Title I of the Housing revitalize the nation's cities, as redevelopment efforts regularly came with flawed results. Program often targeted minorities, poor neighborhoods, in addition to low income areas for urban renewal projects. This practice repeatedly resulted in the local populaces losing their homes and property by demolition. More importantly, this was conducted under the guise of cleansing older and neglected neighborhoods, labeled as slums and areas of crime for newer modern developments. With the support of the federal government, reconstruction was awarded to private contractors handpicked by the local governments, where it sold to private real estate developers at below-market prices. Changes in 1968 and 74 of the Housing and Urban Development Act, concentrate on the revitalization of existing towns and cities to low density residential development than demolition. So, only through rehabilitation of current urban developments can seek a solution for the low income and poor as well as decreasing urban sprawl of more rural
The availability of housing and housing price increases continue to impact the poor and low income, especially in areas that have experienced strong and steady economic growth. Recent studies show that the amount of housing for very low-income families, which was already in short supply, is only declining. In areas where housing prices are high, the poor struggle the most with the imbalance between employment and housing, which also includes a need for reasonable wages, transportation, child care and health care as well as basic nutrition. Affordable housing remains unattainable to those with little or no income as the poor continue to struggle under these conditions, in which homeownership becomes elusive.
It …show more content…
Launched by Congress as the federal urban redevelopment program in 1949 under the Title I of the Housing revitalize the nation's cities, as redevelopment efforts regularly came with flawed results. Program often targeted minorities, poor neighborhoods, in addition to low income areas for urban renewal projects. This practice repeatedly resulted in the local populaces losing their homes and property by demolition. More importantly, this was conducted under the guise of cleansing older and neglected neighborhoods, labeled as slums and areas of crime for newer modern developments. With the support of the federal government, reconstruction was awarded to private contractors handpicked by the local governments, where it sold to private real estate developers at below-market prices. Changes in 1968 and 74 of the Housing and Urban Development Act, concentrate on the revitalization of existing towns and cities to low density residential development than demolition. So, only through rehabilitation of current urban developments can seek a solution for the low income and poor as well as decreasing urban sprawl of more rural