Résumé du livre
In the past few decades, across the United States, middle- and upper-class whites have been returning to those they abandoned in the 1970's, attracting renewed investment from public and private actors to once-disinvested neighborhoods. Meanwhile, lower-income communities of color who remained in those now-gentrifying neighborhoods are often excluded from the benefits of new development. This paper examines the mechanics of gentrification and its effects on low-income community members, considers the prospect that it could advance integration, and aims to provide guidance on how governments should respond to gentrification pressures in order to protect low-income communities from displacement and immobility. It provides two case studies--Detroit and Los Angeles--which incorporate the perspectives of community members, developers, local officials, and other stakeholders as shared with the author in a series of interviews. The case studies layer additional texture on top of quantitative research, providing a frame through which to understand how gentrification operates in particular contexts and how policy responses should be tailored accordingly.