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Engaging with Suburban
Neighborhoods:
What’s Different?
October 23, 2014
Leah Hendey
NNIP Partners Meeting in Denver, CO
Increasing Attention on Poverty in
the Suburbs
More Poor People Now Live in
Suburbs
20
Poor Population Living in Metro Areas
(Millions)
City
15
10
5
Suburbs
7.4
8.3
6.4
7.1
1979
1980
9.6
8.4
10.4
16.4
13.4
10.0
0
1990
2000
2011
Source: Adapted from Confronting Suburban Poverty in America (2013).
Concentrated Poverty Is Growing
Faster in the Suburbs
Metro Area
Suburban
Suburban
Percentage
Share of Metro Share of Metro
Point
Poor
Poor
Change
Population,
Population,
1970
2012
Atlanta
60%
88%
28
Tampa-St.
Pete
44%
70%
25
New Orleans
30%
55%
25
Washington,
DC
47%
71%
23
Baltimore
29%
51%
22
Source: Adapted from http://confrontingsuburbanpoverty.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/05/Suburban-Poverty-Metrics-2012.xlsx
What’s Different?
• Infrastructure
– Political
– Service delivery
– Data and reporting
• Policy Solutions
Three Perspectives on Working with
Suburban Jurisdictions
• Meg Merrick, Institute for Portland Metropolitan
Studies
• Susan Millea, Children’s Optimal Health
• Anthony Galvan, Institute for Urban Policy
Research, UT-Dallas