New research suggests that the benefits of gentrification may be more widespread, and the harms less common, than usually supposed
IN APRIL, a Metro PCS mobile phone shop at the corner of 7th Street and Florida Avenue in the Shaw district of Washington, DC, briefly silenced its speakers. For 24 years, the shop, which also sells music CDs, had played go-go music, a kind of funk indigenous to the city, to passers-by. Some would stop to bop. But, according to the store owner, a resident of a new nearby luxury apartment complained about the noise—and his corporate overseers turned the volume down.
The authors studied the residents of low-income central city neighbourhoods of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in America, tracking individuals who responded to both the census of 2000 and a rolling series of community surveys carried out between 2010 and 2014. That allowed them to follow changes in outcomes for movers and non-movers alike. They create a measure of gentrification based on the change in the neighbourhood population aged 25 or more with a bachelor’s degree.
The paper also suggests there might be positive effects of gentrification for the children of original residents. Those who stay benefit from reduced exposure to neighbourhood poverty—a seven percentage point drop. And children in households that remain also benefit from exposure to higher employment and education levels. There is some evidence that children in the households of those who stay are more likely to attend and complete college.
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