This paper attempts to advance understanding of neighborhood transition by describing and analyzing the transformation of Cleveland's Hough district from a white, middle-class neighborhood into a black slum-ghetto. The findings indicate that of the various factors precipitating the change, none was more important than several urban renewal programs and the profiteering activities of a number of realty companies and investors. These and other findings are discussed and analyzed in terms of their correspondence with the human ecological and power-conflict approaches to neighborhood and community transition. The analysis finds considerable support for the power-conflict approach and raises several questions regarding the assumptions and methodology of human ecology. Several policy implications of the findings and of applying the power-conflict approach are discussed.
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