6.8 Challenges Of Urban Changes

Question 1

Redlining

Answer 1

Identifying high risk neighborhoods and refusing to lend money to the people who want to buy properere in those neighborhoods

Question 2

Blockbusting

Answer 2

Realtors persuade white homeowners in a neighborhood to sell their homes by convincing them that the neighborhood is decking due to black families moving in

Question 3

White flight

Answer 3

The movement of white people from the city to the suburbs due to blockbusting

Question 4

Affordability

Answer 4

The maximum price that a buyer can afford to pay for a house or apartment

Question 5

What effects do high house costs lead to?

Answer 5

Overcrowding, less money spent on food, healthcare, and education, decreased mental health

Question 6

Housing choice voucher program

Answer 6

A federal government program that assist low income families, elderly, and disabled, with affordable homes

Question 7

What are the social challenges cities face?

Answer 7

Access to services, urban crime, environmental injustice, and growth of squatter settlements

Question 8

Violent crime

Answer 8

A category of crime that includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault

Question 9

Social controls

Answer 9

Formal or informal institutions that helps to maintain law and order

Question 10

How do geographers understand trends in urban crime

Answer 10

With GIS

Question 11

Environmental injustice

Answer 11

Poor groups or recent immigrants carry a larger share of environmental risks and hazards than wealthy people , who have to power to influence decisions

Question 12

Environmental racism

Answer 12

Areas inhabited by low income people of color are targeted for environmental contamination

Question 13

Environmental justice

Answer 13

The movement to fix environmental discrimination

Question 14

Squatter settlements

Answer 14

An area degraded seemingly temporary inadequate and often illegal housing

Question 15

Land tenure

Answer 15

Right to own or hold propert, it defines the ways in which rights ti that property are managed

Question 16

Inclusionary zoning

Answer 16

Planning ordinances that require a given share of new construction to be affordable for people with low moderate incomes

Question 17

Exclusionary zoning

Answer 17

Zoning that attempts to keep low to moderate income people out of a neighborhood

Question 18

NIMBYs

Answer 18

Not in my backyard, people who try to prevent the construction of affordable housing and other types of development in their neighborhood

Question 19

Below market rate housing

Answer 19

Housing that costs much less than the going rate

Question 20

What are the two responses to urban social and even omit challenges

Answer 20

Inclusionary zoning(and exclusionary)
And local food movements

Question 21

Urban renewal

Answer 21

Large scale (sometimes small enrichment programs) redevelopment of the built environment in downtown and older inner-city neighborhoods

Question 22

Fiscal imbalance

Answer 22

Government must spend more than it receives in taxes

Question 23

Fiscal zoning

Answer 23

Using local land use regulation to preserve and enhance the local property tax base