Presentation given at MAPC's Confronting Poverty on the North Shore forum, Salem, Mass., November 19, 2013, by Elizabeth Kneeland, Brookings Institute, co-author with Alan Berube of "Confronting Suburban Poverty," (Brookings Press, 2013).
2. Today, more of the nation’s poor live in suburbs than in cities
18,000,000
16,000,000
14,000,000
12,000,000
10,000,000
8,000,000
6,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
1970
1980
1990
Poor Individuals in Suburbs
2000
Poor Individuals in Cities
Number in poverty, central cities versus suburbs, 1970-2012. Source: Brookings analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data
2012
3. Poverty is spreading from older to “mid-century” suburbs
4,885
4,473
4,129
Thousands of poor
2000
3,560
2005-09
2,205
1,656
1,126
793
Older
Mature
Emerging
Suburb Type
Exurban
4. Poverty is suburbanizing due to changing
demographics, economics, and consumer preferences
Aging
Communities
Job Sprawl
Suburban
Poverty
Big City
Renewal
Housing
Crash
Immigration
5. Suburban poverty brings added challenges
Limited Transportation Options
Uneven Philanthropy
Strained Local Capacity
Schools on the Front Lines
6. The fragmented system of place-based anti-poverty programs
does not always map easily onto the suburban landscape
$82 billion
81 federal programs
10 agencies
9. Achieve Scale
Neighborhood Centers Inc.
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Has an annual budget of more than $275
million, 70 different sites, and a staff of over
1,000
Coordinates resources from 35 federal
programs, state, local, and private sources to
provide a seamless continuum of services
Collaborates with other area providers
Improve systems and networks
Promote high-performance organizations
Support smart consolidation
10. Collaborate and integrate
Chicago Southland Housing and Community
Development Collaborative
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Represents 23 municipalities
Continues to be supported by regional
institutions and local funders
Breaks down policy silos
Identify and reduce barriers
Reward collaborative approaches
Catalyze regional capacity
11. Fund strategically
Denver Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Fund
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Partnership between Urban Land
Conservancy, Enterprise Community
Partners, and City/County of Denver
Makes capital available to purchase sites
along current and future rails and bus
corridors
Commit to enterprise-level funding
Promote tools that leverage public & private resources
Develop consistent, comparable data sources
12. Creating a Metropolitan Opportunity Challenge could help bring
these solutions to scale in regions across the country
Federal Place-Based
Anti-Poverty Programs
$82 Billion; 81 Programs; 10 Agencies
Re-purpose 5% : $4 billion
13. You can read more about the Metropolitan Opportunity Challenge
and the contents of the book on our new website
www.ConfrontingSuburbanPoverty.org
14. The website provides a host of helpful resources:
Profiles of the top 100 metros
Tips for taking action
Case studies of innovators
Video
Infographic