A shift in demographics. Affordable apartments transformed into luxury condos. A coffee shop called something like “Brew Slut.” The signs of gentrification take many forms. A newly opened art gallery ...

I find “displacement” to be a much more useful term for describing the negative side of gentrification. Nonetheless, I don’t think gentrification has lost its meaning or should be jettisoned from the ...

Ocejo is professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City One ...

Gentrification, a complex and often controversial process, has become a significant topic of discussion in urban development. As neighborhoods transform due to the influx of more affluent residents, ...

As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s actually pretty rare. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, ...

A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

Neighborhood gentrification in Buffalo between 2011 and 2019 was associated with a decrease in property crime, independent of a general decline in similar crime city-wide during those same years, ...

To the editor: I enjoyed your article on how to spot early signs of gentrification in your neighborhood. There are some very clear additional clues that you didn’t mention. Here in the late, great ...