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Income Diversity Within Neighborhoods And Very Low-Income Families, George C. Galster, Jason C. Booza, Jackie M. Cutsinger
Income Diversity Within Neighborhoods And Very Low-Income Families, George C. Galster, Jason C. Booza, Jackie M. Cutsinger
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The past decades have witnessed increasing concern over the family ills engendered by neighborhoods inhabited overwhelmingly by families with limited resources. This study focuses on a different sort of residential context—neighborhoods with substantial income mixing—and the extent to which very low-income (VLI) families—those earning less than 50 percent of the area median income (AMI)—live in them. The study’s primary units of analysis are the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the 2000 Census, and the secondary units of analysis are census tracts. The study specifies six mutually exclusive income groups based on the ratios relative to …