{"id":243,"date":"2019-04-26T13:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-04-26T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:57:04","slug":"dc-is-the-most-gentrified-city-navy-yard-is-its-most-gentrified-neighborhood-wusa9-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/243\/","title":{"rendered":"DC is the most gentrified city; Navy Yard is its most gentrified neighborhood | wusa9.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDC is the most gentrified city; Navy Yard is its most gentrified neighborhood Report says D.C. is seeing more low-income displacement and concentration than any other large U.S. city.
\n WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C. has experienced the worst gentrification in the country since 2000 among large cities, according to a new study by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity on how American neighborhoods have changed.
\nThe study, titled \u201cAmerican Neighborhood Change in the 21st Century,\u201d was produced by researchers at the University of Minnesota Law School and released this month.
\nIn it, researchers looked at income data for 2000 and 2016 for every census tract in the country to classify them in one of four categories:
\nGrowth \u2013 Tract is economically expanding and has low-income population growth Low-income displacement \u2013 Tract is economically expanding and has low-income population decline Low-income concentration \u2013 Tract is economically declining and has low-income population growth Abandonment \u2013 Tract is economically declining and has low-income population decline The report defines \u201clow-income\u201d as anyone below 200 percent of the federal poverty level \u2013 which, in 2016, would mean individuals that make up to $47,520 annually or a family of four with a household income up to $97,200.
\nAccording to the study, D.C. had the highest rate of economic displacement \u2013 or gentrification \u2013 of all large cities in the U.S., with nearly 36 percent of its population living in areas experiencing \u201cstrong displacement.\u201d
\nThe displacement has been most pronounced in Wards 1, 2 and 6, particularly in the area bounded roughly by the Petworth and Logan Circle neighborhoods to the north and south, and the Adams Morgan and Bloomingdale neighborhoods to the west and east.
\nThe strongest low-income displacement in the city, however, occurred in Navy Yard, which saw its overall population rise to 251 percent of its 2000 number while simultaneously seeing low-income residents as a percentage of its population drop from 76.9 percent in 2000 to 20.8 percent in 2016.
\nInstitute on Metropolitan Opportunity: Low-Income Displacement and Concentration Map
\nAt the same time, Wards 7 and 8 have experienced the opposite trend, with multiple neighborhoods seeing what the report classifies as low-income concentration. The Fort Dupont area saw the largest concentration, with low-income residents rising from 52.9 percent of its population in 2000 to 77.3 percent in 2016.
\nIn D.C., and nationwide, black residents were \u201csignificantly more likely than the population at large to be located in areas that have experienced decline,\u201d according to the report. In all five census tracts located between 16th and 14th streets and Massachusetts Avenue and Spring Road NW, for example, the total black population decreased from 2000-2016, for a total loss of nearly 2,500 black residents. During that same period, the white population increased in all five census tracts, for a total growth of just under 6,000 residents.
\nNavy Yard, the neighborhood which saw arguably the city\u2019s most intense gentrification over the time period studied, lost 531 black residents while adding 2,828 new white residents.
\nIn the Fort Dupont area, the neighborhood actually saw a slight decline in its white population even as the overall population increased by nearly 20 percent.
\nWhile D.C. might be the most extreme example of a city experiencing gentrification, it\u2019s hardly atypical, according to the report.
\n\u201cBy far the most common form of neighborhood change is low-income concentration,\u201d the report says. \u201cIn the 50 largest metros, tracts that have experienced strong low-income concentration include about 36.5 million people, and are predominately suburban.\u201d
\nIn the greater D.C. area, Arlington and Alexandria saw significant low-income displacement as the number of middle-high income residents increased. Maryland counties immediately surrounding D.C. to the east and northeast tended to see a pattern of low-income concentration.
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Mary Bolton 202-390-1208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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