More poor people living in high poverty neighborhoods in NYC
“More poor New Yorkers are stuck in high poverty neighborhoods where they’re faced with higher crime and worse schools, a new study found. The NYU Furman Center report found a spike in the concentration of poverty — or the rate at which poor families live in neighborhoods surrounded by other low-income New Yorkers. Some 23.5% of poor New Yorkers live in what the group calls extreme poverty neighborhoods — those with a poverty rate over 40%. That’s up from 19.4% between 2006 and 2010, and compares to just 10.3% of the city’s population overall.”