Title:
Urban Metamorphosis: The Effect of Gentrification on Community Evolution
Author(s):
Andrew Okon
Author Email:
aokon@unca.edu
Department:
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Faculty Mentor(s):
Giovanny Pleites-Hernandez
Abstract / Summary:
This paper seeks to examine the relationship between gentrification and the reason behind racial change at the county level in North Carolina. As gentrification is difficult to measure empirically this study accounts for the common themes behind gentrification including housing price and median income in an area and derives them into a statistical model nicknamed G-Score. I assume that as gentrification increases, the Black population decreases. Using the data from the Federal Reserve of Economic Data, this study uses a random selection of 12 counties across North Carolina in the years from 2001 to 2019 as a sample, to study the effects of gentrification. Using regression analysis, the study fails to find a hypothesized relationship between a county's G-score and its Black population but does find a directional and substantive impact between the G-score and the Black population of North Carolina based on variable and data analysis.
Publication Date:
May-17-2024
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