Prof. Orfield, Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity Publish Major Report on Neighborhood Change

The Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, led by Professor Myron Orfield, recently published a well-received report on “American Neighborhood Change in the 21st Century: Gentrification and Decline.” The report provides a detailed analysis of neighborhood economic expansion and decline across the United States. It develops a new method for measuring how American regions, cities, and neighborhoods are growing, shrinking, and getting poorer or richer over time, and quantifies on a nationwide and local basis the degree of economic growth, low-income displacement, low-income concentration, and neighborhood abandonment.

CityLab recently interviewed Faculty Fellow William Stancil about the report and published an article highlighting the report’s findings, emphasizing the impact of neighborhood change in the U.S.