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A 10 page paper discussing the need for affordable housing; mixed use developments; and global implications of increased urbanization. The poor and elderly of the inner city continue to face many challenges, some of which appear to be insurmountable if left solely to the market to mitigate. There is a wealth of opportunity available to municipal governments to make their cities more affordable and more desirable for the working class and the elderly, and without crossing over into the area of the negative connotations that affordable housing has collected over the years. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpubPlAffHou.rtf
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three requested charts are on the first 2 pages of the attached source file. Introduction The decay of cities within the US has
been predictable in its progress. As more affluent residents exited for the first suburbs, they left behind high concentrations of poor people in the inner city, which ultimately also
gained abandoned buildings. Early suburban centers cease to grow but strive to maintain quality of life; more recent suburbs experience the most rapid growth and contribute most directly to
sprawl and lack of affordability for the working class and the elderly. Housing price pressures pushed the middle class away from affordability as well, but that may return somewhat
with the current fallout in the national housing market. The bottom line is that the poor and elderly of the inner city continue
to face many challenges, some of which appear to be insurmountable if left solely to the market to mitigate. Global Implications By 2015,
the United Nations (UN) projects that there will be 21 "megacities" of at least 10 million people each, 17 of which will be in developing nations (Meeting the urban challenge,
2002). Already, urban areas gain approximately one million additional residents each week (Meeting the urban challenge, 2002). Countries all around the world
are becoming increasingly urban, particularly under the influence of the globalization of business. China provides a modern example of the same patterns of urbanization seen in Britain and the
United States during their respective Industrial Revolutions. Manufacturers locate in cities where there is some labor available and necessary infrastructure (i.e., roads, rail systems, utilities) already exist. People
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