Our middle class is getting smaller. The indications are that the rate of high and low incomes is rising steadily, while the numbers in the middle are dwindling. Along with the decrease, housing stock in typically middle class communities is becoming delapidated, as upwardly mobile former middle classers move to new developments outside of cities in exurbs. What happens to the neighborhoods left behind? What happens to those that gentrify in non-sustainable ways?
"As upper-income Americans are drawn to the new houses, neighborhoods become more homogenous,..... The zoning is such that it prevents anything other than a certain income range from living there. It is our latest method of discrimination."
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