Fig.7 Percentage Change of Income Integration in PUMA level district from 1990 to 2010
Having the red colors stand for income segregation and the green colors revealing higher integration by income level, we can track trends in the NYC’s PUMAs. An example for PUMA that became more integrated is Chinatown and Lower East Side. Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook, on the other hand, had higher income integration level in 1990 and became more and more segregated by 2010. Most of Manhattan’s PUMAs got less income integrated, so as Downtown Brooklyn and Dumbo; while Harlem, which we know is facing gentrification in the last few years, indeed increases its income integration level.
OLS linear Regression
First, rent burden is defined by neighborhood median rent value over neighborhood median income. The housing stability could be tracked by the ratio because the higher ratio means renters are suffered by paying the rent. The figure 8 shows that how the rent burden changes