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Divided By Design? Urban Renewal’S Differential Impacts On Economic Outcomes By Race, Derik Suria
Divided By Design? Urban Renewal’S Differential Impacts On Economic Outcomes By Race, Derik Suria
CMC Senior Theses
I study city-level effects of the federally and state-sponsored urban renewal program that aimed to improve living conditions for residents in blighted areas and slums. I use an interdisciplinary approach to estimate urban renewal effects on measures of income, property value, poverty, and employment. I first replicate the methodology and estimates of urban renewal effects on city outcomes in 1980 from Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States (Collins and Shester 2013). I extend this research by looking at a longer time horizon (1990, 2000, 2010) and incorporating race-based outcomes. From 1980 to 2010, estimated effects on property …