Rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue, the term has simply become an insult people throw around. Gentrification, the process of local demographic change by which the lower-income ...

Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed The Noshery, a bakery-cafe that she says is the kind of place every neighborhood needs. But does the neighborhood itself need to change? That’s a big question across ...

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 ...

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, ...

History rewards our research and informs that not all 1960s urban renewal initiatives turned out as planned. The intention was noble, but the reality was quite different as government orders destroyed ...

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 ...

Back in August, I wrote a love letter to Denver, the city I used to know. Though my intention was to remember the good things about my city that are gone now, it was also, perhaps, a thinly veiled ...

Will Nunziata’s recent judgmental map of Williamsburg is the latest attempt at breaking down NYC’s neighborhoods into as many generalizations as possible while offending/making us laugh. We covered a ...

This summer, I participated in an advocacy internship sponsored by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. At the same time, my stay in an Airbnb there contributed to the continuing gentrification of ...

Designers at the tiny storefront headquarters for Phoenix International Mas Band in Crown Heights have spent the better part of the year preparing for the West Indian Day Parade that takes over ...