{"id":244,"date":"2019-04-26T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/?p=244"},"modified":"2019-04-26T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:16:51","slug":"gentrification-in-d-c-district-bucks-national-gentrification-trends-with-widespread-displacement-report-finds-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/archives\/244\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentrification in D.C.: District bucks national gentrification trends with widespread displacement, report finds – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/in-the-district-gentrification-means-widespread-displacement-report-says\/2019\/04\/26\/950a0c00-6775-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.85ce10f5657a<\/a>
\nDistrict bucks national gentrification trends with widespread displacement, report finds Marissa J. Lang
\nLow-income displacement and concentration in the Washington region, at the census tract level, from 2000 to 2016. (Institute of Metropolitan Opportunity) In most American cities, gentrification has not pushed low-income residents out of the city they call home, according to a new study.
\nBut Washington is not most cities.
\nIn the District of Columbia, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2000 to 2016.
\n\u201cFor all the talk of gentrification happening in cities all over the country, what we found is that it really isn\u2019t,\u201d said Myron Orfield, director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, founded at the University of Minnesota law school to investigate growing social and economic disparities in American cities. \u201cWashington is one of the few places in the country where real displacement is actually occurring. It\u2019s quite rare.\u201d
\nMore than 38 percent of District residents, including about 35 percent of low-income residents, live in census tracts \u2014 geographic areas smaller than Zip codes that contain a few thousand residents \u2014 that are growing economically. But low-income people who live in those areas are at the greatest risk of displacement, the report says.
\nThe study, conducted over several months and released April 10, comes as gentrification and its consequences are being discussed with renewed urgency in the nation\u2019s capital.
\nEarlier this month, two neighborhood disputes revealed deep divisions in neighborhoods undergoing rapid demographic change. In one incident, a noise complaint briefly silenced the hallmark go-go music of an electronics store in Shaw, while in the other, Howard University students asked their new neighbors to stop treating their campus like a public park.
\nNeither incident happened in the area of the District where, according to the study, the most intense displacement has been happening: Ward 6.
\nAccording to researchers, Ward 6 \u2014 which includes Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard, the Southwest Waterfront and parts of downtown \u2014 has had some of the most dramatic changes in the District.
\nIn portions of the Kingman Park and Capitol Hill neighborhoods, nearly 75 percent of their low-income populations have vanished, census data show. In the Navy Yard neighborhood, about 77 percent of residents were identified as low-income in 2000. Sixteen years later, that population dropped to 21 percent.
\nPeople pushed out of these economic hot spots are largely black and low-income, according to the data. The number of District families headed by single mothers or those without a college degree also has declined.
\n\u201cSince 2000, the same neighborhoods have seen overall population growth of 19 percent, and white population growth of a staggering 202 percent,\u201d researchers wrote. \u201cA huge swath of the city is experiencing gentrification and displacement, stretching from Logan Circle to Petworth, and including neighborhoods like Shaw and Columbia Heights.\u201d
\nIn places such as the Shaw neighborhood, where the go-go music controversy played out, low-income populations have dropped by as much as 57 percent.
\nThe study divided neighborhoods into categories based on who is moving in and who is moving out:
\n\u2022 Areas experiencing \u201cgrowth\u201d were defined as regions that were economically expanding while also increasing their number of low-income residents.
\n\u2022 Those experiencing \u201clow-income displacement\u201d \u2014 like the District \u2014 were losing low-income people while growing economically.
\n\u2022 Areas experiencing \u201clow-income concentration\u201d were experiencing an economic decline and an uptick in the number of low-income residents.
\nCities struggling with \u201cabandonment\u201d \u2014 a rarity in American cities \u2014 were losing low-income people and suffering economic decline.
\n\u201cThere are organizations spending millions of dollars fighting gentrification in cities and neighborhoods that aren\u2019t actually seeing any displacement,\u201d Orfield said of the national data. \u201cWe wanted to build this database to show people where that\u2019s actually happening.\u201d
\nPockets of the District have had an increase in low-income residents, but those areas are what researchers call low-income concentration zones because they are not also experiencing an economic boon, according to the study.
\nSeveral of these zones are east of the Anacostia River, in Wards 7 and 8, where poor areas appear to be getting poorer, researchers said. In neighborhoods such as Good Hope and parts of Greenway, low-income populations have grown by about 60 percent.
\n\u201cThis may reflect an intensification of racial and economic segregation within the city proper, as individuals displaced from a set of gentrifying neighborhoods are concentrated into a nearby set of declining neighborhoods,\u201d the study says.
\nAreas outside the District were more prone to this phenomenon, data shows.
\nAbout 437,000 residents of the city\u2019s suburbs live in areas where low-income populations have increased by as much as 70 percent since 2000. Those areas simultaneously lost about 30 percent of their white residents, according to the data.
\nParts of Prince George\u2019s County near the northeast and southeast borders of the District were the most likely to experience these demographic changes, researchers said.
\n\u201cThe rents are less affordable for poor people in these declining areas, not because the rents are going up,\u201d Orfield said. \u201cIt\u2019s because the poor people who live there are increasingly worse off.\u201d
\nLos Angeles is the only other city in the country that comes close to the District\u2019s levels of gentrification, researchers said, and it has worse displacement rates than those in the Washington area.
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