Neighborhoods

has the greatest influence on us. This book touches upon the topic a number of times due to the fact that it tells the story of two boys who ended up with different outcomes in life despite having lived in the same neighborhood. Although the two boys had shared the same neighborhood, they didn’t grow up in the same environment. Their environments, such as home and school, were different, which would greatly change how both of them ended up. Both boys did not have their fathers but for different…

Lorraine Hansberry was born on May, 19,1939 in Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the Chicago south side she was the youngest. Also one of the four children in her family. Lorraine Hansberry and her family of six moved into a white neighborhood when she was eight years old.They moved into a white neighborhood where they faced many racial discrimination. Lorraine Hansberry attended a predominantly white public school while her parents fought against segregation.…

Nathan McCall’s novel, Them, takes you on a journey that takes place in a Atlanta neighborhood known for its central road, Auburn Avenue, which at one point was considered as the “richest Negro street in the world.” This story is focused on Barlowe Reed, a single, middle aged African American man who is still living with his nephew on Randolph Street, just a little ways from Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic birthplace. Things go out of control when Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young caucasian…

living. Affordability is drawn to mind, shifting consumer preferences to residency in budget-friendly places traditionally associated as “bad neighborhoods.” What is seen as a historical place of disinvestment, often times occupied by people of color, and lower socioeconomic classes, becomes an opportunity. This phenomenon has led to gentrification of neighborhoods such as Oak Park as individuals reconsider a place they can call home. Development, a phenomenon associated yet isolated from the…

there was always someone in the neighborhood whose house will be…

another; if it’s necessary to abrupt issues with local business or owners, companies will do exactly that in order to make their business successful. Business all over the world are booming within apartment condos and right behind someone’s own neighborhood; websites like Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway are introducing ways for local homeowners or real estate to convert homes to short home rentals here in Anaheim, California. Short term home rentals are introducing problems with local home…

With low-income neighborhoods lacking the proper healthy produce that most wealthy areas get, there are less opportunities for those individuals to maintain a healthy diet. In the article. “ Gap in Diet Quality Between Wealthiest and Poorest American Doubles, Study Finds” written…

A range of studies done by the University of Chicago’s American Journal of Sociology have found that living in poor neighborhoods negatively impacts residents— particularly low-income, people of color— due to the lack of high quality housing, jobs, and schools. These individuals are more likely than their counterparts in wealthier neighborhoods to “participate in and be victims of criminal activity, experience teen pregnancy, drop out of high school, and perform poorly in school…

No one ever wants to take out loans or use a payday lenders but in some cases we have to. There are huge issues with these companies. More payday loan companies are used in lower income neighborhoods. This is due to the fact that lower income families sometimes need to get money quick for stuff they might need or want. Even if they are a high risk borrower it is easy for them to just go in and get money even if it takes them years to pay off these loans. Part of the issue is that many of these…

like many other cities across the US, and urban renewal projects were seen across the nation. What made New Haven different was the how extreme the project of New haven was. In his written work Rethinking Government Participation in Urban Renewal: Neighborhood Revitalization in New Haven, Elwood describes how capacity of the project stating the following: “Over the course of his eight terms as mayor, Lee secured approximately $450 million in federal aid for his projects-more federal money per…