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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s (NCRC) study, “Displaced By Design: Fifty Years of Gentrification and Black Cultural Displacement in U.S. Cities,” finds that between 1980 and ...
Nashville exhibited the most "intense" gentrification of any U.S. city between 2010 and 2020, beating out cities with long histories of racial and cultural displacement like Washington, D.C. and ...
‘You’re Not From Around Here’: A searing attack on gentrification that adds virtually nothing to the conversation. Although the topic of gentrification is undeniably important, there is nothing here ...
Gentrification significantly alters the dynamics of a community. As wealthier residents move in, the local economy often transforms to cater to their needs and preferences.
Gentrification does not have to mean the destruction of Black communities. With thoughtful planning and a commitment to equity, it is possible to develop urban areas in a way that preserves their ...
Most interestingly, gentrification is distinct in these places compared to large cities in a few ways. First, newcomers to small municipalities tend to be property and business owners instead of ...
Conspiracists have little to fear, as Moreno’s resolutely non-sinister new book, The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, makes plain. To the decades of poor urban ...
Infographic showing the homeless population in Los Angeles growing. (Ifeoma Utom) Recent statistics from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reveal that over 70,000 people experience ...
For most of my professional career, one consistent societal issue has been gentrification. Even in the depths of the Great Recession, when housing prices were collapsing, gentrification seemed ...
Sarah Schulman’s "The Gentrification of the Mind" is a memoir of NYC during the AIDS crisis and how gentrification erased the city’s queer history.