Summary Of The Relationship Between Gentrification And Crime Rates

Living in communities that are run down, neglected and forgotten takes a toll on all members of the community. This is especially true when residents witness new properties being erected around the city as their own neighborhoods are deemed “ghettos” and not receiving the investment necessary for improvements. Many of the low income housing that is available to city residents aren’t the most desirable properties as they may have structural deficiencies, lead paint, rats and roaches running amuck. Many older properties also do not have adequately functioning heat or hot water availability. The housing projects also do not have air conditioning. On hot days, having no cool break in addition to all the other negative social factors, this can be a deadly combination that may perpetuate frustrations and ultimately lead to violence.

When a neighborhood is gentrified it will not only change the image of it, but also the services available there (Al-Kodmany 2011, 62-63). In other words, gentrification does not only have an impact on the physical aspect of the land, but also the resources that lie there. During the 90s, the Near West Side neighborhood located near Loop, an up-scale neighborhood, sought drastic changes within the area. The changes in racial demographics in the Near West Side indicated that the health risks that affected minorities dropped in the past decade (1992-2002) (Al-Kodmany 2011,

Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland, is located in the northern portion of the state on the Patapsco River estuary, a division of Chesapeake Bay. The city is self-governing and does not fall within any county. (Baltimore, Md., 2015) The vast majority of this city is poverty stricken, which makes it vulnerable to high crime rates. In the first six months of 2013 Baltimore had reported 117 homicides, with a population of 622, 104, (CITY DATA, 2015) this gives the city a rate of 18.8 per 100,000. It was one of few cities that year to actually see an increase in homicides; it was stated by Their City Police Commissioner that more than half of their homicides were related to drugs. Even though, the amount of violent crimes dwindled in 2013,

Research questions. There is little doubt that unsafe, abandoned structures and vacant lots trigger expenditures by municipalities, either directly or indirectly, and result in lost revenue. However, less certainty exists about the relationship between crime rates and the conditions of neighborhoods as expressed by abandoned buildings and vacant lots. The research questions are: (1) Do abandoned properties actually attract criminals and contribute to social

Gentrification has a positive effect on a community in the sense that it ameliorates the local economy. In lower income neighborhoods, the expansion of businesses and creation of jobs is limited by the deficiency of monetary flow. However, as wealthier residents relocate to the area and invest money in the community, businesses develop. Overtime, this trend continues and results in economic development as well as more jobs, which benefits the community. Secondly, the process of gentrification typically results in a lower crime rate. This is because gentrification involves the attainment of vacant properties in order to build new developments. Therefore there will be a decrease in vacant properties which typically attract crime. Additionally, an increase in population results in an increase in local government revenue from taxes which can be spent on law

Gentrification is an existential threat in the Bay Area due to urban renewal, spatial capital, and inequity. This threat can best be described as the process of residential or commercial use of an urban area shifting towards higher economic classes (Center, 199). The process of gentrification has caused many native residents to be displaced from their homes, as well as being forced to move further out of the area or become homeless. Neighborhoods that were once oasis’ for the working class are shifting and becoming too expensive for the people who live there. Food and job insecurity are two forms of inequity that contribute to gentrification practices. These three factors are key in the gentrification that is threatening Bay Area residents.

Gentrification presents itself when outsiders enter an urban community, commonly densely populated with people of color, and through complicit actions wards off the residents within. As the area begins to gain popularity and appeal, the soaring property prices create an incentive for the property owners to rid of the tenants to make room for the newcomers. Furthermore, corporations begin to supersede homes and exploit defenseless communities. Although the newcomers do tend to improve these previously indigent neighborhoods, it comes at the destruction of the cultures that exist within said neighborhoods. Therefore, the amenities of the communities of color enervate in the name of gentrification.

This project is a focus on how variables such as population, ethnicity, and income affect crime rates throughout different neighborhoods throughout a city. I feel that this information finding this information could be useful to many people. For example if you are looking to buy a new home or even start a new business, you’ll probably want it located in a safe neighborhood. This study will help identify the signs of a safe neighborhood. Knowing why crime rates are higher in some areas may also help prevent the crime rate to rise in other neighborhoods. For example, if crime rates are higher in neighborhoods with

Since the beginning of the financial crisis over 4 million homes across the United States have been foreclosed on leaving millions of Americans without a place to live (Badkar, 2013). As we have witnessed, there have been many of devastating implications that has resulted from this crisis . This paper will explore one of them by looking at the relationship between foreclosures in urban cities and the impact they have on criminal activity. The event of a foreclosure has the possibility of affecting criminal activity on many different levels not only are the individuals directly involved affected, but the neighborhood where the foreclosured home is located is also affected. Prior to research I hypothesized possible effects foreclosures could have on crime using Jan Bruekner’s crime model. Firstly, the individuals who are directly involved are left without a home, this kind of dire situation can lead to individuals resorting to criminal activity as a way to earn income. The presences of unoccupied homes provides criminals with a place to breed and conduct illegal activity away from law enforcement. The unappealing aesthetics that come from boarded up homes discourages individuals in the community to take pride in there neighborhood. This could lead to less involvement and fewer calls to the police even when criminal activity is witnessed.

Gentrification has been a controversial issue both in urban planning and politics primarily due to the displacement of poor people by the rich folks (Shaw & Hagemans, 2015). Many individuals have viewed gentrification as an illegal act that should be avoided at all costs. On the other hand, another group of people believe that gentrification is the way forward to promoting growth and development. With such contrasting ideas, this paper is going to take a look at gentrification from a positive and negative perspective, its effects, and how it can be prevented or contained. Apart from this, the paper will also address the following questions.

The results were categorized in which inactivity (0 days) or active (1-7days). Another question asked on the survey was: Do you feel safe in your neighborhood? The researchers used an ordinal scale in which the responses where rarely, sometimes, and mostly or always. In order to better understand and better characterize economic deprivation of each neighborhood the researchers had to analyze specific indictors. The indictors used were proportion of household on public assistance, proportion of households with 2009 income less than 25,000, and people who has a household greater than 100,000 in 2009 (Pabayo et al., 2014). It was also very important to gather information on people with college degrees and those without college degrees. Once all the information was collected the researcher’s categorized households in which people who is above the 75th percentile will be considered high income neighborhoods. In order to measure social fragmentation researchers had to analyze residential stability within the neighborhoods. The indictors followed for this was: proportion of residents who has lived in the same house hold unit for less than five years, the amount of vacancy among units, and owner-occupied housing (Pabayo et al., 2014). In order to measure the amount of crime within a neighborhood was also very important. In which researchers added counts to criminal homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault by viewing the Boston Police Department

In the text "Public housing, concentrated poverty, and crime" by Daniel Hartley published on October 6, 2014.This text is categorized as a non-fiction/ news text. This text talks about how in the late 1980's and the early 1990’s public houses in many U.S. cities were associated with high levels of crime.

In this paper I will discuss and explain anatomy of a crime decline in New York City as well as if in these days can we say that the city is safe. Purpose of this book " The City That Become Safe " written by Franklin E. Zimring is to show us how crime rate changed during 1990 to 2009. According to author this book presents a detailed profile of New York City crime over 20 years period. Book provides the vital statistics of the crime drop by type of crime, by borough, and by year. There are two reasons that such exhaustive detail is required as a beginning to the study. First, the size and the length of the drop are without precedent in the recorded history of American urban crime. The second reason that the details of the crime decline are needed is as a road map for explaining what changes in the city and its government might have caused this epic decline. The more we know about the specific character of the decline- when it happened, where it happened, which offenses- the better our capacity for sorting through different theories of what caused the drop. In addition, shifts the focus from the two decades of the decline to an assessment of current conditions in the city. How safe is New York City?.

Even when coffee shops and gang heavy neighborhoods “…cross paths in a neighborhood, one high rank will not over come the other high rank…” (580). Both of these types of gentrification, in which their was no government involvement, showed how gentrification can reduce the rates of crime, specifically gang related homicides.

Everyday buildings and shops seem to be coming to a rust and becoming of age. There is a process in which it gives the neighborhood or streets a fresh new sense to the community. In doing this brings in a variety of different people from different customs and making the community more diverse. This process is called gentrification which is urban change, particularly, the transformation of a low income or economically depressed area of a city into a higher-income more economically prosperous. Gentrification is not tied to race and ethnicity but social class. Although it seems like all negatives to the community because they have lost their childhood store or restaurant, there are positives to gentrification. Gentrification is beneficial to our community because of the displacement of not only the buildings but of the people, urban renewal, and property value.