Rochester, Sub-Prime
The NYTimes had an interesting, and unsettling, map of subprime mortgages in the tri-state NY area. Upstate got included too. The map itself is cool– you can zoom in and hover over each area to see % of sub-prime mortgages, and % white population. It shows pretty clearly the racial divide, economically. Here’s a screenshot of the Rochester area.
(click on the image to see it full size)
Note the crescent shaped red area? That’s a lotta sub-prime, indicating impoverished areas. And huh, it corresponds to the “fatal crescent” of higher crime areas in the city. Another indicator that poverty leads to higher crime rates– yet another reason to end poverty.
(h/t Albany Project)
(DFE’s take on Rochester’s sub-prime thang here.)
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What’s interesting as well is it almost matches the map for the “UNFAIR” increases you posted up.
All city and westside poverty hit with the highest increases. (or should we say bleeding?)
Very interesting. Good post.
The maps for assessed property value, median income, public assistance, lead poisoning, and race all look pretty much the same. I’m planning to do a series after the election.
i went through the democratic comm. process trying to get the nod for school board, and this post hammers home one of the themes of my campain: socioeconomic segregation and its destructive nature on our community. we can not afford to continue this, we can not afford to continue to ignore this, and our community will not continue at all if we do not stop poverty. i took flak for chastising someone for sending money to new orleans when we need the money down the street. well folks, here it is, look at that map. not only does it match up with ‘the crescent’ look at the schools performances in those areas. it is no accident poor school performance, violence, and poverty match up. (stepping off soap box…..now)
What? It doesn’t match up at all with the geographic distribution of the FAIR impact (The one small thing that FAIR’s got going for it is that the school sales-tax grab spared the city)
A City Newspaper article that refers to the interrelated problems of crime, poverty, and even the effect of county policy on Rochester - and it mentions “the crescent”:
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/archives/2004/1/Busting+up+the+ghetto
The crescent is a high crime-high poverty area. I’ve seen maps of homicide locations in the city over the years, and many are concentrated in that area.
Dennis, you’re 100% right about the segregation - unfortunately (educationally and residentially) the problem is much bigger than anything the City alone can tackle.
I suggest that we’re all complicit to a degree as well. I went to a party in Brighton a couple of months ago - over 100 people, almost all liberal, ONE black face.