For example, a study of people who had been displaced from a close-knit community in Boston found about half of them disturbed or depressed.67 While many of them found better housing elsewhere, 86 percent of them paid higher rents than before they had been forced out of their former neighborhood.68 These particular displaced people were white. Other studies show even higher proportions of displaced blacks suffering the same emotional reactions and even higher proportions of their incomes now being required to pay rent in their new homes.
