In assessing neoliberal policies in urban America, Susser suggests that “….an approach, with its emphasis on Wall Street, undermined the lives of working class residents and edged moderate income families out of their neighborhoods, while it maintained New York City as a central node of the global economy and fostered a massive, if unreliable boom in real estate" (Susser 2012, 15). Based on{“Norman Street: Poverty and politics in Urban Neighborhood “,/“Norman street revisited: claiming a right to NewYork city”/The article “How did Jews become white folks? By Karen Sacks /and A Dream Foreclosed: BLACK AMERICA AND THE FIGHT FOR A PLACETO CALL HOME BY LAURA GOTTESDIENER }.use these books and articles to discuss inequality and gentrification as factors contributing to each other and the American urban experience.