Chicago is known as the heart of America; the place people gather from coast to coast. Famous for its architecture, history, sports teams and delicious food, Chicago has a lot to offer. However, this city is currently in a lot of trouble. What was once known as a thriving, luxurious city is now being taken over by violence. News programs across the nation haven’t been broadcasting the positive things about Chicago, instead they have been primarily focusing on the uprising problem in this city-the crime. Year by year, the crime rates in Chicago are rapidly growing. Last year “Chicago recorded 762 homicides . . . an average of two murders per day” (Fox News). This is an unacceptable number of killings and is “more than New York and Los Angeles…
Public housing segregation was a huge problem in Chicago. Between 1954 and 1967, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) built more than 10,300 segregated public housing units primarily in poor black neighborhoods to prevent blacks…
Plozano. "People 's World." Chicago Gentrification Is a Global Issue » Peoplesworld. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.…
Is there anything more frustrating than sitting in rush hour traffic, day after day, knowing that it will never get better? How does standing in line at the grocery story, spending a full day at the DMV, or having to squeeze into the packed elevator in a downtown high-rise sound? These are but a few minor, yet inconvenient, effects of the population explosion we Californian’s are facing. Our geographical space is not getting any larger, but our population is. The 2000 census showed California’s population increased by 13.6% over 1990 census figures to 33,871,648 people. California adds over 550,000 people annually, which is roughly equivalent to adding the entire population of the state of Vermont every year. Why is California so over populated and what are the potential long-term effects of this overcrowding?…
The country as a whole has taking huge strides over the past 60 years when it comes to equality, race, and integration. Gentrification however, is still a major ongoing problem today that is faced across all areas of the United States. Many people are behind remolding projects to promote an overall better community. At the same time, this in turn hurts the poverty line, because they can no longer afford to live in a revamped community. It is a very difficult decision to take a stand on either side of the argument, but when you do, you need to make sure that you way in all the facts, that affects, both sides of the argument, before you take a bold stand on whether you are for or against it.…
There has been past evidence that shows how this process can force lower-income residents who are no longer able to afford rent or pay property taxes in their neighborhoods to move out. Gentrification is a word that is often times misunderstood and has become synonymous almost with displacement. Because many of these urban areas many are initially inhabited by minority populations and are stereotyped as bad neighborhoods with run down houses and unemployed people, many would argue that the government’s secret tool of urban renewal has been to get the old residents out and bring some new residents in. in most cases white, rich people then in and improve the aesthetic conditions of the neighborhood and then the original residents, who eventually are unable to keep up with tax costs and recognize that culture of their old neighborhood is lost, then move elsewhere. Surprisingly, I just didn’t find this to be the case exactly in Newark, NJ. There has been some displacement of lower income families out of the city, but the overwhelming impact seems to be a positive one.…
overpopulation. From one year to the next with both Chicago and Philadelphia it shows that the…
3. Read about how England passed through the various stages of the model on pages 61 and 62. Describe a historical event for stages 1 and 2 and a cultural attitude for stage 4.…
Gentrification has been the reason for distressing fight in numerous American urban areas, regularly along racial and economic deficiency lines. Neighborhood change is frequently seen as an issue of social equity, in which well off, typically white, newcomers are saluted for enhancing an area who’s poor, minority occupants are displaced by soaring rents and monetary change. With the impact of gentrification in urban community manifest social effects of homelessness and social stressors of low income people. According to the Institute for Children & Poverty (2009), researchers ask “is gentrification merely a code word for the displacement of poverty?”…
Chicago has become one of the largest cities in the United States, ranking the third largest in 2012. Housing nearly 2.7 million civilians, it has shown exponential growth throughout the century and is now an icon for metropolitan cities (Largest). However, modern day Chicago is drastically different from its past. This topic has been widely researched to discover what molded Chicago into the city is it today. Numerous books, articles, and other publications discuss several possibilities of this question, ranging from religious backgrounds to widespread violence and the “Great Migration.” To understand modern day Chicago, it is essential to know the history of the city and the wide range of influences that helped shape it.…
The truth of the matter is that Chicago is in a crisis and has been for some time now. There are some great people and great organizations who are trying to end the violence in Chicago, but it hasn’t been enough. More actions need to be taken by the higher authority in order to make this beautiful city a safe one. Just between 2011 and 2012, crime rates in Chicago rose a staggering 38 percent (The New York Times). It is apparent that not enough action is being taken to protect the lives of civilians roaming our beautiful city.…
Going back to 2012 the deadliest city was Flint MI. which, if the trend continues will be surpassed by Chicago. According to (Galik, 2013) In 2012 Flint MI. has a murder rate of 66.9 murders per 100,000 people compared to Chicago’s of 18.7. Although the city police chief and a city spokesperson would not comment, the Mayor of Flint, Dayne Walling, a PhD and Rhodes Scholar blame “the high murder and other crimes on the availability of illegal guns and drugs”. Other economic issues also plague the city, according to Barillas (2013), “the challenged city, has coped with failing schools and infrastructure, outmigration and industrial collapse” (Para.5).…
Child abuse usually spreads from family to family as children learn from their parents and their habits. Adults who abuse their children need to get help as well as the children who have been abused to stop further abuse from spreading. Both of these problems include violence and continue violence’s chain reaction. Many people might think that violence isn’t Chicago’s most pressing issue, and some may believe that poverty is Chicago’s most concerning issue. Although this is a valid concern, violence takes a big part in poverty and therefore the problem of poverty itself is not the greatest issue. For example, in Englewood in 2004-2008, 42% of households were under the poverty line and because of that, the homicide rates were 48 per 100,000. Violence causes poverty and because of that, poverty is not Chicago’s roughest issue. Violence is Chicago’s most pressing issue as it is the root cause of many other problems. Violence has to be stopped in order to make Chicago a better place and to eliminate hundreds of other problems that the residents of Chicago suffer. With the help of certain political figures, we can get rid of the majority of the gang activity in Chicago and therefore decrease the rates of…
In the city of New Orleans, the homeless population is at an all-time high. A cause of the homeless population may be because of gentrification. Gentrification is the process of rebuilding an area, bringing in the company of middle class or well-off people, most likely throwing the poorer residents out from rising rent prices. People lose their homes after gentrification and even their jobs. The only good thing about gentrification is that it makes the city look better and attracts wealthier people to that certain area. I think that gentrification should not be allowed in areas that residents cannot afford the rising rent prices.…
The center of CBD has a higher crime rate, but the community come up with a solution to reach out and help people with housing, people’s needs, and with the low income families that do not have the money to send children to fun events. The areas like this have negative aspects to them like less high paying job availability, more bad behavior that hurts other people, and population increase.…