{"id":32671,"date":"2024-06-19T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=32671"},"modified":"2024-06-19T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:54:47","slug":"ken-kolb-explains-why-place-based-investment-in-gvl-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ken-kolb-explains-why-place-based-investment-in-gvl-isnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Kolb explains why place-based investment in GVL isn&#8217;t enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Ken Kolb, chair and professor of the Department of Sociology, has drafted an update to his report &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/ec193fcd3f194bc0a7f8353f69f24aa8\">Racial Displacement in Greenville, South Carolina<\/a>.&#8221; Working with The Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities and incorporating new census data in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kenkolb.substack.com\/p\/racial-displacement-and-place-based?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\">report<\/a>, Kolb explores why building more affordable housing doesn&#8217;t represent a silver bullet for the rapid decline in the city&#8217;s Black population. In addition to investing in places, Kolb says investing in people &#8211; job training, public transportation and childcare &#8211; is just as important. Learn more in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2024\/06\/14\/invest-people-furman-study-says-more-affordable-housing-wont-solve-racial-displacement\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> story by Kennedi Harris. Spencer Donovan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/news\/racial-displacement-gentrification-greenville-sc-furman-study\/article_f2247274-24e2-11ef-8ee3-f32aa0727904.html\">The Post and Courier Greenville<\/a> also covered the new findings as did Chloe Salsameda of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/local-news\/furman-university-study-examines-impact-of-racial-displacement-in-greenville\/\">WSPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolb has updated a report about gentrification in the City of Greenville. He explains that investing in places is a good thing, but investing in people is how the city can make inroads in shoring up racial inequalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,22,2232,1578],"tags":[111,2853,112,1808,2854,2852,2236],"class_list":["post-32671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-sociology","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville","category-wspa-7-news","tag-affordable-housing","tag-childcare","tag-gentrification","tag-income-inequality","tag-job-training","tag-place-based-investment","tag-public-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32730,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions\/32730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}