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Cityscape: Volume 24 Number 2 | Measuring Blight | Gentrification and Opportunity Zones: A Study of 100 Most Populous Cities with D.C. as a Case Study

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Measuring Blight

Volume 24 Number 2

Mark D. Shroder

Michelle P. Matuga

Gentrification and Opportunity Zones: A Study of 100 Most Populous Cities with D.C. as a Case Study

Haydar Kurban
Howard University

Charlotte Otabor
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, D.C.

Bethel Cole-Smith
Gauri Shankar Gautam
Howard University


The volume 24, number 1 issue of Cityscape contained a duplication error for appendix exhibits A1–A10 on pages 174–178. The corrected versions of those exhibits follow.


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