The Problem

Our community is ravaged by poverty.

85.8%

Eighty-five point eight percent of the children in our neighborhood live in poverty. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, our neighborhood has a disproportionately high number of children living in poverty.

99.0%

The Washington Park/Gibbs Village community has an average per capita income lower than that of 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States. 

24.9%

The current real estate vacancy rate in our neighborhood is 24.9%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Most of our housing is vacant year round, which is a contributes to high rates of homelessness in our community.