Gentrifying Neighborhoods Open Opportunities for School Integration
April 01, 2022
Appears in April 2022: School Administrator.
![Kfir Mordechay](/images/default-source/school-administrator/2022-april/20-potter-kfir-mmordechay-sidebar.jpg?sfvrsn=8a38c10e_7)
![Allison Roda](/images/default-source/school-administrator/2022-april/19-roda-headshot.004.jpg?sfvrsn=7a462bb6_11)
With more white and middle- and upper-class families opting to settle in urban centers over the past generation, gentrification has transformed many American urban neighborhoods and public schools.
Historically, gentrification has been a modest
force of urban change, largely driven by avant-garde artists and concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods in cities such as New York and San Francisco. In recent decades, however, the breadth and scope of gentrification has accelerated far
beyond these two cities, growing faster than researchers’ ability to track it.
In a forthcoming study of California cities by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, researchers found gentrification to be widespread across various metropolitan
areas of different sizes. This phenomenon is not limited to California. According to another analysis by Governing magazine, nearly 20 percent of low-income neighborhoods in the country’s 50 biggest cities have undergone gentrification since
2000. With record-low housing inventory and soaring prices spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, these trends are sure to have accelerated.
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About the Authors
Kfir Mordechay is an assistant professor of education at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, Calif., and a research fellow with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Allison Roda is an assistant professor of education at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
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