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Old Posted Dec 10, 2018, 5:54 PM
LouisVanDerWright LouisVanDerWright is offline
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I'm not certain that you can say an area like Little Village is "slipping a little" because they only added 350 foreign born persons. The fact of the matter is that it would be damn near impossible to cram any more people into that neighborhood without a massive new construction campaign. The existing housing stock is dense and it's occupancy even denser. The fact that the foreign born population increased at all is impressive given plummeting Mexican immigration to the US. But the point being you can only fit so many people in a 2 bedroom apartment and LV is already at that limit neighborhood wide. The neighborhood is also already one of the most "foreign born" to begin with. Given the number of people in the area who are having families and sticking around, it becomes harder and harder for the area to maintain it's foreign born percentage just as a matter of natural birth rates changing residents to "US born" citizens.
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