Just like pornography, everyone seems to know "gentrification" when they see it. See a Starbucks or Whole Foods move into a neighborhood? That's gentrification. Find out that a house sold for an ...
“Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies,” by feminist and urbanist scholar Leslie Kern. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited ...
Gentrification is all about renovating neighborhoods so that people who are affluent will want to live in them. At first glance, gentrification may seem like a terrible thing for small businesses. We ...
Protestors march during a rally against a proposed development in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood in this file photo from June 20, 2019. The protestors argue the development would exacerbate ...
An analysis of median home values over 50 years in five of Nashville's formerly affordable neighborhoods shows how much the ...
It’s time to stop believing the lie that gentrification is inevitable. Gentrification is natural. Neighborhoods change over time. Different groups move in and out, businesses change hands, land uses ...
Your commenter Abe’s Ghost can’t see the difference between integration and gentrification. The difference is that integration is just moving people from one place to another. Gentrification is ...
IN APRIL, a Metro PCS mobile phone shop at the corner of 7th Street and Florida Avenue in the Shaw district of Washington, DC, briefly silenced its speakers. For 24 years, the shop, which also sells ...
We tend to think of cultural heritage in terms of iconic historical artifacts, and we tend to think of saving cultural heritage in terms of heroic acts to preserve historically important things. We ...
No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an office in Brooklyn, New York. For years, the borough’s name has been ...
Neighborhood gentrification in Buffalo between 2011 and 2019 was associated with a decrease in property crime, independent of a general decrease in similar crime city-wide during those same years, ...
They drive by and they don’t see us.' Long-time residents of Toronto's downtown east are ready for change even as critics ...