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GENTRIFICATION
Gentrifiers slow to buy CPS, displaced
students paying the price
Chart: Fewer whites
use gentrified-area schools
Chart: People move in, but don't use CPS
schools
Chart: Fewer kids,
fewer school-aged kids
Roscoe Village
group works to bridge school, community gap
Gentrifiers give
public schools a chance
How three families are dealing with displacement
Overcrowded school
serves displaced students
Schools in hot
areas lose local students
Research on gentrification,
education
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The links below include
research from local and national organizations, academics, and advocates.
Displacement,
Mobility and Education
The
Family Housing Fund, a
Twin Cities-based non-profit, has posted a summary of its "Kids Mobility Project,"
which University of Chicago researcher David Kerbow calls some of the
best research to date on the effects of displacement on kids' education.
Gentrification
Handbook
The Brookings Institution and PolicyLink teamed up on a
national report: "Dealing
With Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices."
The report examines national trends, with a special focus on Atlanta,
Cleveland, Washington D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chicago’s
hot neighborhoods
The Woodstock Institute,
a Chicago-based non-profit, published a guide to changes in the Chicago-area
real estate market in the 1990s, "Who's Buying Where?"
The report is based on federal home loan data. More than a dozen maps, posted separately,
illustrate the November 2001 report.
Local
Rental Trends
The Metropolitan Planning Council
published "For
Rent: Housing Options in the Chicago Region," a 1999 analysis
of the local rental market. Special reports on Chicago's North Side, South Side, and
West Side, completed
in 2000, are posted separately.
School
Overcrowding
The Neighborhood Capital Budget Group,
a local watchdog on public-works issues, has published several reports
on school construction and overcrowding.
Demographic
Trends in Chicago
Kenneth
Johnson, a demographer at Loyola University of Chicago, has posted
an analysis of 2000 Census data and state birth and death records that
shows how the city and region have changed since 1990.
Housing Advocates
The Chicago Rehab Network works to create and preserve affordable housing in
Chicago. Their site includes "Housing Facts"
on the need to create more reasonably-priced housing, and "Housing Set-Asides," an
argument for mixed income developments.
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