Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Residential segregation and Chicago
I believe that Chicago is still a segregated city. I say this because of what I've seen, one second you can be driving down the street and the people you might see are mainly Hispanics and you go down two more blocks and the people in that area may have changed from mainly Hispanics to mainly African Americans. The area where i first noticed this was when I used to live in the Gage Park area, from 49th up to 54th the people in that area are mainly Hispanic but from 54th and above you mainly see African Americans. I also noticed that the areas where African Americans are in the most the property prices are really low compared to where Hispanics and Whites are in property prices seem to be in average range of what a home normally cost. I noticed this when my sister was looking into buying a home to renovate and resell, there were homes in neighborhoods with predominantly African American residents would begin at $14k and in Hispanic and Caucasian neighborhoods homes would begin around $110k. It seems that what we are learning in class about homeowner ship still exists to this day.
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