Residential Mobility 3

Question 1

What is the socioeconomic context thesis?

Answer 1

It suggests that reactions to non-racial socioeconomic conditions, not an aversion to particular racial or ethnic groups, are the primary drivers of population loss and neighborhood change. (this is similar to the racial proxy hypothesis)

Question 2

What is the housing competition model?

Answer 2

It suggests that large and growing concentrations of immigrants might affect native-born residents’ out-mobility by engendering fundamental changes in the local housing-market conditions. E.g., increases of immigrants may drive the cost of housing and which might push natives out of the neighborhood. Immigrants may be associated with rates of homeownership & new construction & residential satisfaction among native-born residents.

Question 3

How might extralocal immigrant concentrations reduce the likelihood of native out-mobility?

Answer 3

Residential moves are highly distance-dependent, thus mobility is more likely when nearby neighborhoods have attractive characteristics and less likely when they are deemed less attractive than the current place of residence.

Question 4

For both whites and blacks, residential mobility continues to be enhanced by growth in what two demographic components?

Answer 4

It is enhanced by growth in immigrant populations and reduced by the presence of larger foreign-born populations in surrounding neighborhoods. (Crowder et al. 2011).

Question 5

Between 1980 and 2000, the number of metropolitan neighborhoods containing sizable proportions of two or more groups increased by over ___-______, while the number of all-white metropolitan neighborhoods declined by a similar proportion and the number of all-black tracts declined by nearly ___-_____.

Answer 5

two-thirds, one-third (Friedman 2008)