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Originally Posted by cardeza
mt. airy is an example.
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Lots of urban neighborhoods are examples. There's plenty of mixed income folks living jowl to jowl in Philadelphia rowhomes.
It only seems to become and issue when higher income people start to move into very low income neighborhoods. I get the concern, but most Philadelphia neighborhoods before white flight were pretty much mixed income. You have many blocks with modest 2 story rowhomes next to grander 3 and 4 story rowhomes. Some are single unit housing some are cut up into even smaller apartments. It's the very definition of mixed income.
In Fishtown, you have newcomers in $1MM plus townhomes living next door to old timers in very modest rowhomes on the same block as rowhomes carved up into 3 and 4 small apartments. In the Mt Airy section of Philadelphia you have some blocks with 2 story rowhomes, some with 3 story row homes, some with grand mansions. On top of that, there are apartments smattered all Mt Airy and a mix of co-ops (some very cheaply priced) and condos in owner occupied multi-family homes.
I think the only really nice area of Philly that I wouldn't consider mixed income is Society Hill. It's uniformly owner occupied very large townhomes that are typically renovated. Few are carved up into apartments and when they are, they're pretty grand.