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Ch. 13 Key Issue 3

Ch. 13 Key Issue 3. Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?. US Urban Area. Most noticeable distinction is between inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs along the periphery of the city Inner-city residents face different problems than suburbanites Physical Social Economic.

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Ch. 13 Key Issue 3

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  1. Ch. 13 Key Issue 3 Why Do Inner Cities Face Distinctive Challenges?

  2. US Urban Area • Most noticeable distinction is between inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs along the periphery of the city • Inner-city residents face different problems than suburbanites • Physical • Social • Economic

  3. Physical Issues • Poor housing conditions (built pre 1940) • Filtering • Dividing large houses built by wealthy into smaller units for low income families • Houses are abandoned when income from rent is less than Landlord’s upkeep costs • Low income fams move further out from center to find better housing, leaving houses empty • Redlining

  4. Physical Issues • Urban Renewal • Acquire blighted properties, relocate inhabitants, demolish and rebuild • Destroy culture and reduce supply of low cost housing • Public housing- gov’t subsidies (higher in Europe) • Clustered too many poor into one place

  5. Physical Issues • Urban Renewal • Renovated Housing- alternative to demolishing • Attracts middle-class fams = gentrification • Renovating large inner city house just as expensive as buying a new one- and you get amenities! • Gentrification can cause a change in patterns (Chicago) = more whites in inner-city and more minorities further from center

  6. How can Tropicana Field be an example of Urban Renewal?

  7. Revitalization of CBDs • Gentrification efforts • New, nicer and more expensive housing • City’s changing their appearance by shifting from industry to service activities • Cultural amenities: museums, night life, sports arenas, parks/open spaces • Increase in income allowed residents to pay more for CBD living space (during good economy) • Effects: pushes low income (mainly minorities) out of inner city

  8. Social Issues • Permanent underclass • Trapped in a “Culture of Poverty” • Unemployment, alcohol/drugs, illiteracy, crime • Poor quality services in inner city • Unwed single mothers • Stay married or stay on welfare? • Lack skills/ do not graduate = cannot compete for jobs • Low skilled jobs are now in far off suburbs • Homelessness

  9. Social Issues • Permanent Underclass • Clustering of ethnicities and “segregated” cities • Will pick neighborhood where characteristics match their own • Scenic (nice views) homes for wealthy, industrial regions for poor (close to jobs)

  10. Economic Issues • Due to the eroding tax base, there is shortage of money to pay for needed services • City has 2 choices: • Reduce services • This would encourage middle class to move away • Raise tax revenues • This would attract new businesses to inner-city

  11. Economic Issues • Impact of the recession • Collapse of housing market in inner-cities • Subprime mortgages to low-income fams • Renting minorities in inner ring became targets • Unable to repay loan = forclosure • Falling home prices = owed more than house is worth (being “upside down”)

  12. Subprime lending or gentrification?

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