^ You’re pushing this fairly off-topic, and I don’t know the history in enough detail to make hard claims about whether UChicago’s role in community development has been, on balance, positive or negative. When I lived in HP (which was years ago) relatively low income people could afford to live there (and did live there). It was a multi-racial community (mostly black and white then) of 30,000+ residents. Not just a couple of blocks.
Median household income in Hyde Park today is ~$60K, according to realtor.com figures.
That’s a few thousand dollars above the Illinois median.
That’s not Georgetown (DC), where the median is ~$119K.
It’s not Palo Alto or Princeton.
It’s not even Evanston, Cambridge, or Berkeley.