What is Gentrification?
Gentrification can have a negative connotation and is often compared to white flight, it also can be seen as a race issue. Whereas, a Caucasian population will take over poverty stricken mixed-race neighborhoods and revitalize them with their newly brought in businesses. Alex Schafran writes in the Berkeley Planning Journal, “residents of gentrifying neighborhoods have been "displaced" from the literature on the subject. [They] are so busy trying to define it, quantify it, stop it, etc. that [they] have a tendency to lose sight of the human side of the discussion” (2007, p.42).
But isn’t there more to it than just that? Actually, Gentrification has more to do with the socioeconomic of new residents, and not race, although there is a correlation (Darity, 1983). The makeup of gentrification …show more content…
In addition to these acts there is also three executive orders:
Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
Executive Order 13006: Locating Federal Facilities on Historic Properties in Our Nation 's Central Cities
Executive Order 13007: Indian Sacred Sites
In addition, there is the:
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) which congress pushed through in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Put into place in 1937 in order to improve housing standards and conditions, as well as providing mortgage insurance on loans in order to stabilize the mortgage
Gentrification can have a negative connotation and is often compared to white flight, it also can be seen as a race issue. Whereas, a Caucasian population will take over poverty stricken mixed-race neighborhoods and revitalize them with their newly brought in businesses. Alex Schafran writes in the Berkeley Planning Journal, “residents of gentrifying neighborhoods have been "displaced" from the literature on the subject. [They] are so busy trying to define it, quantify it, stop it, etc. that [they] have a tendency to lose sight of the human side of the discussion” (2007, p.42).
But isn’t there more to it than just that? Actually, Gentrification has more to do with the socioeconomic of new residents, and not race, although there is a correlation (Darity, 1983). The makeup of gentrification …show more content…
In addition to these acts there is also three executive orders:
Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
Executive Order 13006: Locating Federal Facilities on Historic Properties in Our Nation 's Central Cities
Executive Order 13007: Indian Sacred Sites
In addition, there is the:
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) which congress pushed through in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Put into place in 1937 in order to improve housing standards and conditions, as well as providing mortgage insurance on loans in order to stabilize the mortgage