Category: CLACLS Reports

  • New LDP Report: Gentrification and the South Bronx

    The Latino and non-Hispanic black populations in the South Bronx are still the overwhelming majority, despite increasing worry about gentrification in the area. Want to learn more about other sociodemographic trends studied in the report? Click on the full report here and the press release here. Read More

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  • New LDP Report: Healthcare coverage

    The first LDP release of 2020 analyzes the trends in healthcare coverage in the New York Metropolitan Area and the United States between 2009 and 2015. The main result? There has been a decrease in the uninsured population in both areas of study, including among those living above and below the poverty threshold. The trends…

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  • A New Long Island?

    The second release for this Spring of the Urban Series is on Long Island. As some of the most traditional New York City suburbs, the Nassau and Suffolk counties have had important changes in the past thirty years. The report is called “A New Long Island: Demographic, Economic and Social Transformations in New York City’s…

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  • Gentrification in Upper Manhattan?

    The Latino community of Washington Heights/Inwood is not being displaced in any meaningful way. While there has certainly been an increase in the number of wealthy non-Hispanic whites over the last decade, as of 2015 Latinos maintained the same proportion of the neighborhood’s total population as they did in 1990. Read the full report here…

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  • Household Income Concentration in the United States

    Income concentration in the U.S. has been on the rise since 1967, both within, as well as among, racial groups. Our new report tracks these trends among the four largest racial and ethnic groups in the country until 2018. It is notable that among the wealthiest households in the country (those in the top 20%),…

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