Another way low income families are hurt by failures of city planning and protection is through today’s gentrification. Residential segregation have only changed forms as the decades went on. Gentrification is when business owners renovate and improve buildings and districts to appeal to a higher-class demographic. The common effect is that property taxes skyrocket, low-income families get displaced by rising prices, and that culture gets diluted () . Positive effects like more school funding and beautiful streets end up being enjoyed only by the upper and middle class americans once the working-class americans have been pushed out by high rents. (Roos) While in the 1920s White americans kept their neighborhoods free from african american
