What happen after world war 2 that caused the inner cities to become mainly a place where the poor and minorities lived?

Answer 1

We could come with The Causes of Inner-City Poverty and the Hypotheses in Search of Reality. It is now more than 12 years since the publication of William J. Wilson and Robert Aponte's survey of urban poverty in the United States. That report still stands alone as an effort to produce "a state of the art review of research and theoretical writing on urban poverty" (Wilson and Aponte, 1985).

After World War Two, Japan had been devastated in a major proportion. The Japanese could not rebuild the country. They had no means to do so. The United States worked on rebuilding the country. It took 15 years to do so and the expense was calculated in a million dollars a day.

American poverty has many faces. The poor are elderly and young, families and single individuals, men and women, with and without disabilities. They are of all races and ethnicity. They work in restaurants, on farms, in packinghouses, in day-labor settings, and at many more workplaces that do not pay enough to get them out of poverty.

The people declared a "war" on poverty almost half a century ago, and we have taken major steps forward, but poverty is still with us. Some have even said we fought a war on poverty and poverty won. Most people who experience poverty have a short stint of it. The people also went through racial segregation in the United States. The deed general term, included the racial segregation or hyper segregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.

Answer 2

They had new technology and new medication came out.

Slums grew rapidly.

Answer 3

Racial tensions in cities rose. The tax base of many large cities eroded. Public housing projects became more common