A neighborhood of concentrated poverty in Baltimore. Photo: Linda Davidson/Washington Post
by Emily Badger Washington Post December 5, 2014
Despite their ubiquity in the media, gentrifying neighborhoods that evolve over time from low-income to well-off are quite rare. It is far, far more common that once-poor neighborhoods stay that way over time — or, worse, that they grow poorer....
by Patricia Cohen New York Times December 3, 2014
ALEXANDRIA, Ky. — The bills arrive as regularly as a heartbeat at the Vories’s cozy bi-level brick house just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. It’s the paychecks that are irregular....
by Crary and Lisa Leff Washington Post November 17, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — The number of homeless children in the United States has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report...
This long-abandoned lot in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago was once home to a bustling business district. Now Whole Foods is planning to build a store here. Photo: Warren Skalski/Washington Post
by Emily Badger Washington Post November 14, 2014
CHICAGO—The center of Englewood has been vacant for so long that many people in the neighborhood can’t quite recall when it became that way. Thirty years ago? Forty? It was after blockbusting began on the South Side, after white flight was well u...