High-Poverty Neighborhood

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A High-Poverty Neighborhood is a residential area with a high poverty rate.



References

2016

  • http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/opinion/police-violence-american-epidemic-american-consent.html
    • QUOTE: We keep talking about choices, but we don’t talk nearly enough about the fact that choices are always made within a cultural and historical context. People didn’t simply choose to live in neighborhoods with poor housing and poor schools and crumbling infrastructure and few grocery stores and fewer adequate health care facilities. There were many factors that created those neighborhoods: white flight, and the black flight of wealthier black people, community disinvestment, business lending practices and government policies assigning infrastructure and public transportation to certain parts of cities and not others. And the people living in those communities — sometimes trapped in those communities — make choices, sometimes poor ones, within that context.

2014