Mixed income redevelopment and neighborhood change: Determination of the effects of residential segregation and poverty concentration on successful mixed income redevelopment

The following paper provides an economic analysis of four case studies to determine if the anticipation of the most suitable conditions for mixed income redevelopment is possible. The tools used for analysis are: (1) Neighborhood Change between 1990 to 2000; (2) Difference in change between neighborhood and control region; (3) Correlations analysis.; The four case studies have varying levels of both residential segregation and poverty concentration. The Carver Park neighborhood had a moderate level of residential segregation in 1990 and a high poverty concentration level. The Earle Village neighborhood had moderate levels of both residential segregation and poverty concentration, the Allequippa Terrace neighborhood had high levels of both, and the Techwood/Clark homes neighborhood had a high level of residential segregation and a moderate level of poverty concentration in 1990.; The above analysis determined that the 1990 level of poverty concentration is more strongly correlated with neighborhood change. In support of that finding, the two case studies (Earle Village and Techwood/Clark) that proved conclusively successful were the case studies with moderate levels of poverty concentration in 1990. The level of residential segregation, while strongly correlated with certain variables in the analysis, proved to have little bearing on how successful the HOPE VI revitalization program could be. It is thus determined that neighborhoods with moderate levels of poverty concentration, regardless of the level of residential segregation, provide an environment more suitable to positive change than neighborhoods with high levels of poverty. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)...