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Title: SUBURBAN POVERTY, VEHICLE ACCESS & UNEMPLOYMENT
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Over the past decade, the geography of poverty in the United States has seen a dramatic change, as now more Americans live below the poverty line in suburban areas than in our nation’s cities (Kneebone and Berube 2013, 3). This transformation is especially evident in the Bay Area, where alongside rising rent prices in San Francisco and Oakland, low income individuals have moved further into the suburbs in search of affordable housing. In fact, of all locations in the Bay Area, suburban areas have seen the greatest percentage increase of people living in poverty over the past decade (Soursourian 2012). The suburban community of Vallejo, located roughly 40 miles north of San Francisco on the San Pablo Bay, is a prime example of the new reality of suburban poverty. Troubled by the closing of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1996 and the city’s declaration of Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2008, Vallejo has maintained one of the highest poverty rates of all Bay Area suburbs. More than 12% of households in Vallejo live beneath the poverty line. Yet this figure still masks the inequalities that exist within Vallejo itself, under-representing the extent of poverty some neighborhoods in the city are experiencing.
Url: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kstoy/?p=91
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Authors: Stoy, Kelan
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Land Use/Urban Organization, Poverty and Welfare
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