An exploration of the importance of the strategy used to identify gentrification

Barton, Michael S.

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“…While this study used an empirically tested measure of gentrification, other measures may yield different results. 1 Future research should explore the relation of SRH with other gentrification measures. In addition, our analysis should be replicated in other regions of the USA, as well as internationally, to determine how the effects of gentrification vary based on local character.…”

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“…A fundamental problem in the existing debate is the inconsistent fashion in which gentrified neighborhoods were identified. 1 We draw on a recently developed typology which emphasizes the increasing exclusivity of neighborhoods as a result of socioeconomic change, 4 adding to it the distinction of racial change brought about by this gentrification. We use hierarchical linear modeling to determine the implications of gentrification for self-rated health (SRH).…”

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The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification

2016

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There exists controversy as to the impact gentrification of cities has on the well-being of minorities. Some accuse gentrification of causing health disparities for disadvantaged minority populations residing in neighborhoods that are changing as a result of these socioeconomic shifts. Past scholarship has suggested that fears of displacement and social isolation associated with gentrification lead to poorer minority health. However, there is a lack of research that directly links gentrification to minority health outcomes. We address this gap with individual data from the 2008 Philadelphia Health Management Corporation's Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey and census tract data from the 2000 Decennial Census and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey. We implement logistic multilevel models to determine whether and how a resident's self-rated health is affected by gentrification of their neighborhoods. We find that while gentrification does have a marginal effect improving self-rated health for neighborhood residents overall, it leads to worse health outcomes for Blacks. Accounting for racial change, while gentrification leading to increases in White population has no measurable effect on minority health, BBlack gentrificationl eads to marginally worse health outcomes for Black respondents. These results demonstrate the limitations that improvements of neighborhood socioeconomic character have in offsetting minority health disparities.

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The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification

2016

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“…Owens (2012) found that socioeconomic ascent based on census-based indicators commonly employed to identify gentrification captures various forms of neighborhood change, many of which are not inherent to the direct indicators of neighborhood upgrading associated with gentrification. Moreover, Barton (2014) demonstrated that Bostic and Martin's (2003) and Freeman's (2005) census-based strategies identify gentrification in distinct areas from both each other and well-known gentrifying areas identified in newspaper content. Wyly and Hammel (1999) also found that tracts that they identified as gentrifying correlated with expected socioeconomic census variables, but approximately 10 % of tracts were also incorrectly classified as gentrifying when using the same census variables to identify gentrification.…”

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Pioneers of Gentrification: Transformation in Global Neighborhoods in Urban America in the Late Twentieth Century

Hwang

2015

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Few studies have considered the role of immigration in the rise of gentrification in the late twentieth century. Analysis of U.S. Census and American Community Survey data over 24 years and field surveys of gentrification in low-income neighborhoods across 23 U.S. cities reveal that most gentrifying neighborhoods were “global” in the 1970s or became so over time. An early presence of Asians was positively associated with gentrification; and an early presence of Hispanics was positively associated with gentrification in neighborhoods with substantial shares of blacks and negatively associated with gentrification in cities with high Hispanic growth, where ethnic enclaves were more likely to form. Low-income, predominantly black neighborhoods and neighborhoods that became Asian and Hispanic destinations remained ungentrified despite the growth of gentrification during the late twentieth century. The findings suggest that the rise of immigration after 1965 brought pioneers to many low-income central-city neighborhoods, spurring gentrification in some neighborhoods and forming ethnic enclaves in others.

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“…While a national-level analysis can shed light on general patterns, measuring gentrification, particularly by applying uniform criteria to capture socioeconomic ascent in neighborhoods across cities, often does not necessarily identify areas associated with gentrification or undergoing similar types of change (Owens, 2012; Barton, 2016). Because we have a large enough sample size to examine residential mobility patterns for various subpopulations and across various types of neighborhoods within a single city, we therefore focus on a single city in this study.…”

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Gentrification and residential mobility in Philadelphia

Ding

Hwang

Divringi

2016

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Gentrification has provoked considerable controversy surrounding its effects on residential displacement. Using a unique individual-level, longitudinal data set, this study examines mobility rates and residential destinations of residents in gentrifying neighborhoods during the recent housing boom and bust in Philadelphia for various strata of residents and different types of gentrification. We find that vulnerable residents, those with low credit scores and without mortgages, are generally no more likely to move from gentrifying neighborhoods compared with their counterparts in nongentrifying neighborhoods. When they do move, however, they are more likely to move to lower-income neighborhoods. Residents in gentrifying neighborhoods at the aggregate level have slightly higher mobility rates, but these rates are largely driven by more advantaged residents. These findings shed new light on the heterogeneity in mobility patterns across residents in gentrifying neighborhoods and suggest that researchers should focus more attention on the quality of residential moves and nonmoves for less advantaged residents, rather than mobility rates alone.

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An exploration of the importance of the strategy used to identify gentrification

Cited by 108 publications

References 23 publications

The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification

The Association of Minority Self-Rated Health with Black versus White Gentrification

Pioneers of Gentrification: Transformation in Global Neighborhoods in Urban America in the Late Twentieth Century

Gentrification and residential mobility in Philadelphia

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