Concentrated poverty
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Concentrated poverty refers to a spatial density of socio-economic deprivation. In the US, it is commonly used in fields of policy and scholarship in reference to areas of "extreme" or "high-poverty" defined by the US census as areas with "40 percent of the tract population living below the federal poverty threshold." A large body of literature argues that these areas of concentrated poverty place additional burdens on poor families that live within them, beyond what the families' own individual circumstances would dictate. The research also indicates that areas of concentrated poverty can have wider effects on surrounding neighborhoods that are not classified as "high-poverty," thus limiting overall economic potential and social cohesion.
See also
- Gentrification
- Happiness economics
- Hedonic regression
- Slum
- Economic impact analysis
- Effects of economic inequality
- Jane Jacobs
- Barrio
- Affordable housing
- Personal responsibility
