...Changes in American Neighborhoods Like most topics that have to do with America and deciding if it something is bad or good it is very controversial. Everything is based purely off personal opinions, regardless of evidence. Neighborhoods and the fact if people feel safe or not within their own is the question. Discussing this topic specifically is hard for most to accept the fact that they have changed, and not for the better. It is not okay for anybody to feel unsafe in the place where they live, regardless if that means going to hangout outside for a family barbeque or staying in for a movie night. Some major worries have been drive-byes and burglaries, which brings the expense and the desire of an alarm system and guns. Seeing that not only America,...
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...low income neighborhoods change: Entry, exit, and enhancement☆ Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine M. O'Regan ⁎ NYU, Wagner Graduate School and Furman Center, NY, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t This paper examines whether the economic gains experienced by low-income neighborhoods in the 1990s followed patterns of classic gentrification (as frequently assumed) — that is, through the in migration of higher income white, households, and out migration (or displacement) of the original lower income, usually minority residents, spurring racial transition in the process. Using the internal Census version of the American Housing Survey, we find no evidence of heightened displacement, even among the most vulnerable, original residents. While the entrance of higher income homeowners was an important source of income gains, so too was the selective exit of lower income homeowners. Original residents also experienced differential gains in income and reported greater increases in their satisfaction with their neighborhood than found in other lowincome neighborhoods. Finally, gaining neighborhoods were able to avoid the losses of white households that non-gaining low income tracts experienced, and were thereby more racially stable rather than less. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 8 June 2010 Received in revised form 22 December 2010 Accepted 28 December 2010 Available online 6 January 2011 Keywords: Neighborhood change Gentrification...
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...Almost any of the problems surrounding poverty in New York CIty, have existed and continue to exist in East Harlem. It is a densely populated neighborhood with rough boundaries between 96th street and around 140th street on the East Side of manhattan, the neighborhood is clustered with low income high rises, often referred to as the projects. While driving through one will notice the towering brick monoliths that rise above the three to five story brownstones that comprise of most of the non-federally subsidized residencies...
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...Neighborhood Public Policy Public health or public safety issue? Public health issues are ones that cause injury or disease to a population of people in the community (The Council of State Governments, 2009). Unexpected injury decreases the life expectancy of children (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.). This is another reason this situation is a public health concern. The Neighborhood scenario involving the accident and injury of Marcus Young is a public health issue. In this scenario Marcus was hit by a speeding car. Millions of people are injured and killed in traffic accidents yearly (World Health Organization, 2014). These are preventable injuries and deaths. The World Health Organization is focusing on five risk factors contributing to injuries from accidents occurring on roadways. The five areas are speed, alcohol, seatbelts, helmets, and visibility. The accident involving Marcus Young has two of the five key areas; speed and visibility. One report identified an increase in accidents and deaths from drivers exceeding the speed limit. Mrs. Young wanted to create a safer environment for her children and the community. She called her local congressional representative and requested that speed bumps be installed as a deterrent to speeding. How does this scenario exemplify the legislative process influencing public health? This scenario exemplifies legislative process influencing public health by Mrs. Young working with her congressional representative to...
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...How do residents from the Brooklyn area survive gentrification? Introduction Neighborhoods can change in many different forms by social polarization, political factors, and integration of new neighbors or departure of long-time folks. These changes around a specific area are sum up as gentrification. The renewal of neighborhood environments that transform and attract middle and upper-class households and investors, creating problems for those who cannot afford rises of rents. However, what cause some dwellers to remain in their homes despite the rise of property values? Or how lower-class populations persist in gentrified zones? With the aid of federal and government institutions, low-income characters would not be able to continue living in their homes. Even though the process of restoration can result in the increase of the cost of life, some dwellers opt to remain in Green Point, Brooklyn because they enforce a number of methods, such as Section 8, Low Interest Rate programs and rent regulation, to fight displacement. Definition Generally speaking, gentrification is a two-edge process that usually pushes long-time dwellers from a neighborhood as the upgrading or improvement of the urban environment takes place around this specific neighborhood. In other words, residents opt to move out of the neighborhood because of the rise of rents, property value, and the renovation of the stock housing, which usually ends up with the replacement of the lower class with the middle to...
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...rich cultural history and vibrant community. As years passed by, Harlem has seen significant changes due to an influx of more wealthy residents and new businesses. This transformation has led to many economic developments, such as improved structure and increased property values. However, these changes have been followed by many challenges. Residents who have been living for a long time have started facing displacement, rising living costs, and shifts in the social structure of the community. Local businesses, many of which have been family-owned for generations, have started to struggle amid the...
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...Neighborhood Public Policy This paper is regarding a scenario involving Marcus Young in an automobile accident and Angie Young, Marcus’ mother and her attempt to change public safety for children in her residential area. The paper will also discuss the Legislative process, the different approaches of the Neighborhood Council and Angie Young’s ability to refute the opponent’s claims and propositions. Public safety and public health cannot be separated. Anywhere there are safety issues, it affects the people around the unsafe zone. Neighborhood scenarios represent both public safety and public health. Marcus Young was playing around the neighborhood and got into a car accident where he was struck and suffered a pelvic fracture, a right leg fracture, and multiple lacerations to the body. He is now in stable condition at an intensive care unit. Marcus’ mother, Angie Young wants to prevent these incidents from happening in the future to other families in the community. She wants to put speed bumps in her residential area. She is planning to take this matter to the state and local Neighborhood Council. This scenario exemplified the legislative process and how it influences public health in the Neighborhood community. Angie Young discovered a problem for public safety and is planning to take this matter to state and local Neighborhood Council. She wrote a letter to a congresswoman and made phone calls to city officials. While waiting for the meeting, she organized a Neighborhood...
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...Analysis of “How to Be Good” In the excerpt from the novel How to be Good, the author, Nick Hornby introduces a story that illustrates an issue of homelessness in an upper middle class neighborhood. The narrator, Katie Carr, finds herself in a situation where she is dealing with her husband, David, and his friend’s, GoodNews, mission to change their neighborhood by decreasing the number of homeless youth. Their solution to this neighborhood problem is to use spare rooms in the neighborhood’s houses as temporary shelter until youth are more established on their own. They gather all of their neighbors at the party and introduce this problem and their solution to obtain everyone’s opinion. As a result of this gathering, David and GoodNews illustrate their “goodness” to their community by encouraging people to become part of the solution. Even though the other side of their solution is presented to the audiene, five people feel that they have an obligation to change the lives of these homeless children. Katie Carr is facing a dilemma because she truly believes that she is a good person since she has become a doctor to help others. In addition, she considers herself to be a good mother and a wife. However, she opposes the idea of hosting and aiding homeless youth from her neighborhood in her house because she strongly believes that she doesn’t have to share her house with the homeless youth since that would limit her family and herself. Katie supports the fact that everyone has...
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...Social Structure Theories and Reducing the Crime Rate Social structure theories associate crime rates to the organization, or disorganization of individual neighborhoods. Crime rates are higher in neighborhoods that are more disorganized than in those that are not. When identifying a disorganized neighborhood there are certain things that stand out as signs. They are: high drop out rates, high unemployment rates, a high number of single parent households, and low income levels. Social structure is directly linked to crime. Because of this, there is a need for changes to be made. While there are certainly changes to be made to the criminal justice system, changes should first be made within society. Society needs a better handle on what to do with it’s money and what is really important. Disorganized neighborhoods don’t start out disorganized. However, focus seems to shift quickly from the lower class to wherever the upper class may be. We need to ensure that our money goes to better school systems. We need to create programs to help students graduate and become passionate about academics again, and these programs need to be as available as possible to absolutely anybody who may need them. This extra help needs to stem from both the involvement of society as a whole, as well as a child’s parent. Because single parent households are so common there is a place in society to help out as well. The same as we could create programs for children, we should be putting together...
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...Countless people watch their neighborhoods and cities expand, develop, and change. In the growing world today, gentrification is becoming a solution or problem to many cities and neighborhoods that are changing. Many people might not know what gentrification is or even have heard of it before, but it is happening in their neighborhoods right in front of their eyes. Gentrification is the process where an influx of middle-class and upper-class people cause a revitalization and rebuilding of deteriorating areas because of the money they bring to the local economy. This often results in the displacement of impoverished residents in the area. This is happening in many countries and in many populated cities in America like San Francisco, Boston, and Philadelphia. Some people’s opinions on gentrification is that it is beneficial, while others view gentrification harmful. While both sides feel that they are correct, people that favor gentrification seek the benefits that it can produce while the people against gentrification worry about losing their neighborhood and eventually being forced to move out. When viewing both sides of the argument, it is clear that the benefits of gentrification...
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...west of Prospect Heights, overseeing both the Gowanus and Park Slope neighborhoods. As of 2014, the precinct reported a drop of 7.95% in crime rate since 2013, a slow but steady improvement as the neighborhood undergoes a massive transformation from industrial and residential properties into Brooklyn’s next cultural hotspot. FDNY Emergency Medical Service 347 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 The FDNY EMS Station 32 is located on the northern end of Gowanus. This emergency medical service station in place of a typical ladder company addresses the safety needs of incoming residents, while acknowledging the reality of a modest population in an industrial neighborhood. GOWANUS OVERVIEW Activism History of Community Engagement...
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...of obesity and illness. This is the norm in many minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia, and this is where obesity rates are highest across the social/environmental spectrum. The Philadelphians finding themselves in these neighborhoods have poor food choices that compound the obesity issue. Poor nutrient high caloric foods are cheaper, and readily available than the more expensive nutritious food. Lack of access to affordable healthy food is a risk factor for poor health and obesity. Compounding the lack of quality food is the over-exposure to advertisements for poor nutrient high caloric fast-food and unhealthy beverages. Consumption of this food/beverages increases more calories consumed than are being used for energy/or burned throughout the...
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...charging them with improving the quality of life in low and moderate income neighborhoods. Community policing is “a policing philosophy that promotes and supports organizational strategies to address the causes and reduce the fear of crime and social disorder through problem-solving tactics and police-community partnerships.” The main focus of community policing is on crime and social disorder through the delivery of police services that includes aspects of traditional law enforcement, as well as prevention, problem-solving, community engagement and partnerships. After surveying residents of the community our team has new and improved strategies that will better the community policing and keeps our streets safer. What is community oriented policing and what does it ask of the police officers of today? There is no one commonly recognized definition of community policing, and there is a cautious tendency to label anything and everything as community policing. However, a good working definition would be "a department-wide philosophy of full-service, personalized and decentralized policing, where citizens feel empowered to work in proactive partnerships with the police at solving the problems of crime, fear of crime, disorder, decay, and quality of life. Community policing broadens the nature and number of police functions compared with traditional policing. It emphasizes organizational change, active problem solving, and external partnerships to address issues that...
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...Aaron Cason April 17, 2016 Introduction to Criminal Justice Professor James Jackson Semester Assignment: Community Policing Community policing has become a very important and very necessary part of policing and protecting our communities. The concept has been in place for many years. It is actually part of one of the main events in policing reform that occurred between 1960 and the present time. This was actually brought about because of many problems, including questions about the police treatment of minorities and why they were not effective. The Rodney King and Bryant Allen case most notably. Two African American men were videotaped by an observer being beaten by police officers helped to change the face of police. The radical changes that occurred because of this made way for much needed reform, community policing, which has been a tool for effective policing. Our text describes community policing as “a law enforcement program that seeks to integrate officers into the local community to reduce crime and gain good community relations. Community policing typically involves personalized service and decentralized policing, citizen empowerment, and an effort to reduce community fear of crime, disorder, and decay” (pg. 165). Community policing is how the police work with the community to protect the citizens while doing their jobs “effective and efficiently”. Overall, the concept of community policing seems like such a great idea for the citizens being served, as...
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