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livedinneighborhoodsthatsawaninflux
ofcollegegraduatesdidn’tmoveawaymore
oftenthantheirpeersinlessfluidareas.
Takentogether,thepaperssuggestthat
gentrification’supsidesforlongtimeresi-
dentsnotonlyexistbutgoalongway
towardmitigatingthepainitcauses.Citing
previousresearch,BrummetandReedsay
that “exposure to higher-income neighbor-
hoods has important benefits for low-
incomeresidents,suchasimprovingthe
mentalandphysicalhealthofadultsand
increasing the long-term educational
attainment and earnings of children.”These papers measure the measurable
and quantify the quantifiable. They are
narrow in scope and limited in their con-
clusions. They don’t capture the sense of a
familiar world slipping away, or what it
feels like when the mix of languages and
races on your block begins to change. They
don’t address the disappointment of young
adults realizing they can’t afford to rent
near the blocks where they grew up. They
miss the network of churches, groceries,
sounds, and stores that dissolves when, say,
a black neighborhood grows whiter or an
immigrant enclave breaks up. Emotions,urban evil, a ravager of lives and destroyer
of communities, is based as much on faith
as on fact. Most scholarly research on the
topic compares snapshots of cities and
neighborhoods at different times but loses
track of what happens to the actual people
who live there.
Now a pair of studies have used Census
microdata and Medicaid records to track
specific residents of both gentrifying and
non-gentrifying neighborhoods—where
they live, where their children go to school,
when they move, and where they go. The
researchers come up with some startling
findings. In a paper published by the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Quentin
Brummet and Davin Reed say that urban-
ites move all the time, for countless reasons,
and that gentrification has scant impact on
that constant flow. Those who stay put as a
neighborhood grows more affluent often
see their quality of life rise and their chil-
dren enjoy more opportunities. Those who
leave rarely do worse.
In a separate study at NYU by Kacie
Dragan, Ingrid Ellen, and Sherry A. Glied,
published by the National Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research, the researchers used
Medicaid records to track thousands of
children from address to address between
2009 to 2015, a period of boiling gentrifi-
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