The gentrification process explained in 6 simple infographics. An Austrian designer hopes his visualisations will give meaning to statistics in a post-truth world.

INFOGRAPHIC: In Oakland, Gentrification Hasn’t Meant Less Poverty Or a Drop in Crime. We take a look at the clash between Oakland’s rising median household income, poverty rates and violent crimes.

Hipsters are the symptom, not the only cause, of a gentrification scheme also influenced by banks working in partnership with big-time developers. Close your eyes and picture the typical, vilified ...

Gentrification is easy to spot if you know where to look. If homes in your neighborhood follow these trends, gentrification might be on the way.

Gentrification has long been a dirty word for forcing poor people out of neighborhoods across U.S. cities. When a poor neighborhood attracts higher income residents, expensive cafes and pricy ...

Gentrification is becoming more common in US cities, raising questions about its health impacts on original, or “legacy,” residents, including both those who stay in place and those who move ...

Everything about gentrification is controversial — even its definition. One recent study by sociologist Michael Barton compared how the New York Times and researchers used the term to talk about ...

Gentrification, human rights—these are broad terms for complicated ideas. To understand how these activists could claim that the manifestation of the former is a violation of the latter, it’s ...

Gentrification may not push more low-income renters out of their homes, but it does threaten to block a diverse set of residents from moving into areas that provide access to opportunity.

Gentrification is essentially wealthy people displacing poorer people. But within that definition, there’s ample room for some controversial commentary. Gentrification has been invoked in everything ...

For many on the Left, gentrification remains a dirty word, synonymous—or at least closely associated—with racism, oligarchic developers, neoliberalism, and even genocide. Fortunately, not all ...