"Why do you want to buy houses so fast?" - asks Joe and Ray Ray as they call the numbers...
Varying definitions of "Gentrification", Rochester's history of redlining, racial covenants, subsidized white surburban mortgages, and white disinvestment are presented; along with "new urbanism" and local "affordable housing" developments using regional median incomes.
References to Shane Wiegand's "Redlining and Segregation in Rochester" slideshow discussions. Contact him at shanewiegand22@gmail.com
"Cascading Displacement" by Severine von Tscharner Fleming, excerpted from The New Farmer's Almanac, Vol. IV, 2019
Joe drives the miles with "Circle in the Round", Miles Davis while collecting signs.
Image of a Rochester redlining map overlayed with current concentrated poverty map put together by Michael Boucher
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