{"id":9373,"date":"2021-05-17T16:39:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/west-greenville-is-no-longer-a-majority-black-neighborhood\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:40:51","slug":"west-greenville-is-no-longer-a-majority-black-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/west-greenville-is-no-longer-a-majority-black-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"West Greenville is no longer a majority Black neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kolb, Furman University associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, studies housing trends in the university&#8217;s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. At a City Council meeting where he cited data from the U.S. Census Bureau and American Community Survey, he presented what he sees as a troubling trajectory for lower income residents in the historically Black neighborhoods of West Greenville and Southernside. Residents there, particularly renters who comprise 75% of the population, are feeling the squeeze of rising property values and are at an ever increasing risk for displacement.<\/p>\n<p>Kolb spoke to a reporter for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/greenville\/downtown\/2021\/05\/17\/west-greenville-southernside-sc-no-longer-majority-black-neighborhood\/5040373001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> about the trend and ways the city can create affordable housing and curb &#8220;commercial creep&#8221; so that lower income citizens are not priced out of their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kolb, Furman University associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, studies housing trends in the university&#8217;s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. At a City Council meeting where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,22],"tags":[111,112,859],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","tag-affordable-housing","tag-gentrification","tag-rising-property-values"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","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=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"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=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}