SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ben Carson, Disinvestment, Lead Poisoning
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Between 1950 and 1970, suburbs began to form. 1970 still a fairly dense inner city. 1990 urban core is losing population to the suburbs. 2016 almost no identifiable urban core. One of the reasons for this spread is that a lot of jobs that caused people to move to the city have moved to the suburbs. Race, class, and the fear of crime lead corporations to move to the fringed of urban areas. Redlining is the practice of not providing loans, or insurance, in what are deemed undesirable areas: explicitly racist and a process of denying black neighborhoods funding, denied black families of mortgages. The most significant factor determining the flow of mortgage credit in the us is the racial composition. The market alone is incapable of providing good, affordable housing. Cities have had a hard time attracting federal aid. Cities without a big tax base have a hard time dealing with these issues.
