USA poor diluting from concentrated areas , migration

 

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The Poor Moved Out of Blighted Areas in 1990s

The sharp decline in the concentration of extreme urban poverty in the U.S. at the end of the twentieth century appears to have been due to poor residents' migration out of very-low-income areas, says Robert L. Wagmiller Jr. of the University at Buffalo, SUNY. In a study of data on thousands of households, he found that poor black families had just a 19% likelihood of moving from high-poverty to low-poverty neighborhoods in the 1980s and early 1990s, but in the subsequent decade the likelihood rose to 27%.

Source: Why Did Poverty Become Less Geographically Concentrated in the 1990s?