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‘Redevelopment’ is more often ‘dislocation’ for minority populations
"Hidden Spatial Inequality" Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities © 2009


Discriminatory effects of redevelopment on Black Neighborhoods, Portsmouth, VA: lots cleared for redevelopment prior to 1995 are nearly all within majority-Black neighborhoods or within now-vacant neighborhoods which were previously majority-Black.
Demography and boundaries from US Census 1990; location of cleared land geocoded from Portsmouth redevelopment authority address lists.
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