Large investments come to these areas because of local or state policy, generally from private entities. Governments create policies to entice real estate developers to purchase multiple properties in these areas. Companies often build new homes and commercial spaces, taking advantage of incentives, such as lucrative tax breaks and loose zoning laws. Changes often come quickly, drawing in new residents and businesses and pushing out those who can no longer afford to live and do business there.
These urban renewal policies remain a controversial topic. That's because they have been known to displace minority and low-income residents who generally struggle to find affordable housing in a market with increasingly high property values, not to mention small businesses that operate in these areas.
Critics suggest policies should address and help shape the economic and social dynamics that led to the ghettoization of these neighborhoods. Although some of these areas have gone through the process of gentrification, others may still show signs of inequality. The term ghetto comes from 13th century Europe. Cities in Spain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal sought to segregate Jewish populations into one area upon the suggestion of Pope Pius V during this period.
In 14th century Venice, Italy, Jews settled into an area of an old iron foundry, otherwise known as a ghetto. The term also has roots in the Greek word ghetonia which means neighborhood or the Italian borghetto which means small neighborhood. Jim Crow laws and income inequality contributed to the creation of many low-income, minority neighborhoods in the United States.
Some were formed after the Civil War, while others were created in the late 20th century. Center for American Progress. Department of Health and Human Service. Census Bureau. Accessed Dec. HUD User. Smithsonian Magazine. Home Ownership. Company Profiles. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Investopedia.
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To an American it is ugly. The title of the book was doubly appropriate. Some pointed to the lack of statutory laws restricting African Americans to prescribed areas, but that argument overlooked a whole range of state actions—from the enforcement of restrictive covenants before , to support for redlining and the denial of home insurance for blacks in the suburbs, to the building of public housing in already segregated districts—that made black residential concentration far more than purely a case of de facto segregation.
Some African-American thinkers objected to the label for what they saw as its stigmatization of black communities. Others believe the term powerfully conveys the intractable, prison-like nature of black segregation, the reality that residence in inner-city neighborhoods remains involuntary for most, practically if not legally.
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Da Place were da homies are at. Im goin' Down da hood.
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