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Flowers for the Future

Flowers for the Future. Samuel Keller Senior Criminology Major with Minors in Psychology and Philosophy at Le Moyne College. Our Mission:.

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Flowers for the Future

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  1. Flowers for the Future Samuel Keller Senior Criminology Major with Minors in Psychology and Philosophy at Le Moyne College

  2. Our Mission: After a spring semester at a college ends, our program gets student volunteers as well as a few helping hands from the community in order to renovate the neighborhood landscapes and ensure that the exterior of homes are both safe and aesthetically pleasing. The goal is to upgrade the aesthetics of neighborhoods, make homes safer and more efficient, and restore a pride in homeowners’ properties.

  3. Community Need – Comparative Tracts

  4. Community Need Data https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/opportunity360/measure

  5. Logical Approach

  6. Literature Review • While it encourages migration toward other parts of the metropolitan area where home equity gains are lower, gentrification does provide a gateway for African American and Latino Americans to reap financial benefits (Glick, 2008). • There are many mixed feelings on gentrification. Some believe it is good and upgrades neighborhoods, others believe it just weeds out low-income homeowners that live in stigmatized ghettos (Doucet and Koenders, 2018). • While low-income elderly Latino residents are able to stay in a gentrifying neighborhood, they still find limited places where they feel welcomed. This can cause a feeling of discomfort at one’s home (Garcia and Rua, 2018)

  7. References Doucet, Brian, & Daphne Koenders.(2018). “‘At least it’s not a ghetto anymore’: Experiencing gentrification and ‘false choice urbanism’ in Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk.” Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.), 55(16):3631– 3649. https://0-doi-org.library.lemoyne.edu/10.1177/0042098018761853 García, Ivis, & Rúa, Merida M. (2018). “‘Our interests matter’: Puerto Rican older adults in the age of gentrification.”Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.), 55(14):3168–3184. https://0-doi-org.library.lemoyne.edu/10.1177/0042098017736251 Glick, Jonathan (2008). “Gentrification and the Racialized Geography of Home Equity.” Urban Affairs Review, 44(2):280–295. https://0-doi-org.library.lemoyne.edu/10.1177/1078087408316971

  8. My Response The goal of my program is not gentrification and nothing of the like. Yes, it is to renovate houses, but gentrification is to push middle class conformity on low-income neighborhoods. This program is to simply help give funding and free labor to those homeowners who need help either making the exterior of their home safe or update an aesthetic of their home in order to restore pride in their property. We don’t want to weed out the low-income homeowners and displace them, but rather give a helping hand because of the expenses that being a homeowner bring to the table.

  9. Examples of Renovations

  10. Data Analysis • Tested “Pre-Program vs. Post-Program” • Binary Variable • Low Income Homeowners are the Unit of Analysis • Control Variables: • Full-Time Job • High School Graduate • Gender of Homeowner • Race • Age

  11. Crosstab

  12. The program worked! The Pre vs. Post p-value for being able to complete home renovations was 0.05 Linear Regression

  13. Budget

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