Residential Mobility 2

Question 1

What is the housing availability model of interneighborhood migration?

Answer 1

It posits that families’ decision to leave their original neighborhoods are shaped in part by the supply of neighborhoods perceived to be more attractive than the original neighborhood.

Question 2

What effect do high concentrations of minorities in extralocal neighborhoods have on the likelihood of white out-mobility?

Answer 2

It reduces it, presumably by reducing the attractiveness of nearby residential alternatives. (Crowder & South 2008).

Question 3

What effect do high concentrations of extralocal minorities have on the influence of the racial composition of the immediate neighborhood on White out-migration?

Answer 3

It suppresses the effect. (Crowder & South 2008)

Question 4

What effect does recent growth in the size of an extralocal minority population have on the likelihood of White out-migration?

Answer 4

It increases, and accounts for much of the influence previously attributed to racial changes in the local neighborhood. (Crowder & South 2008)

Question 5

What is the ethnic flight thesis?

Answer 5

It suggests that large or growing concentrations of foreign-born residents in a neighborhood might spur native out-mobility (both blacks and whites) by affecting a neighborhood’s racial and ethnic composition.