Journal Article

Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago

Betancur, John

2011

Overview

Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhoodbased fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in their mobility and exchange value resources, lower-income groups depend on such fabrics far more than do the higher income. In fact, they have fewer choices and are most vulnerable to place-based shifts. The case seems especially challenging for minorities who, like European immigrants before them, depend largely on place-based platforms/social fabrics but, unlike them, confront the added factors of race and urban restructuring.

• Publisher: SAGE Publications,Longman Group,Sage Publications Ltd
• Subject: America / Bgi / Prodig / Chicago - ethnology / Chicago Illinois / Choices / Communities / Community associations / Community development / Community support / Cross-Cultural Comparison / East North Central / Ethnic factors / Ethnic Groups / Ethnic Groups - education / Ethnic Groups - ethnology / Ethnic Groups - history / Ethnic Groups - legislation & jurisprudence / Ethnic Groups - psychology / Ethnic neighborhoods / Ethnicity / European cultural groups / Fabrics / Gentrification / Hispanic Americans / Hispanics / History, 20th Century / History, 21st Century / Humans / Immigrants / Income / Labor theory of value / Latin American cultural groups / Low income / Low Income Groups / Metropolitan areas / Minorities / Minority & ethnic groups / Minority Groups / Mobility / Neighborhoods / Police / Population Groups - education / Population Groups - ethnology / Population Groups - history / Population Groups - legislation & jurisprudence / Population Groups - psychology / Race / Race Relations - history / Race Relations - legislation & jurisprudence / Race Relations - psychology / Redevelopment / Residence Characteristics - history / Residents / Retirement communities / Social Change - history / Social Class - history / Social mobility / Socioeconomic Factors - history / Socioeconomic status / United States / United States of America / Urban areas / Urban Health - history / Urban Population - history / Urban Renewal / Urban studies / Vulnerability