Whitmire Study
The City of St. Louis faces a number of challenges in maintaining and promoting strong neighborhoods and the last census identified a number of concerns. Gateway Greening commissioned a study to determine what impact community gardens had on addressing these concerns. The study focuses on 54 community gardens, located primarily in low to moderately low-income neighborhoods of St. Louis City. Comparisons were done using data from the 1990 and 2000 Census.
Results
Through the study It has been determined that garden areas show neighborhood stabilization occurring, economic diversity being maintained, a greater percentage of people investing in their homes, greater percentage of people paying affordable rents, and a lesser percentage people paying unaffordable rents than in the city as a whole or in the surrounding tracts.
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