LOS ANGELES — Gentrification may have become one of this country’s most nettlesome civic issues, but you’d hardly know it judging from what’s been on TV. In sitcoms and dramas set from Brooklyn to ...

When a developer buys a building in a working-class neighborhood with plans to tear it down and build new apartments, the current tenants can feel powerless. But that’s not always the case. A fight ...

LOS ANGELES -- For the young and upwardly mobile hipsters of Northeast L.A., the Frogtown Flea Crawl was the hot new event of their perfectly Instagrammable dreams. For many residents of the ...

Tourists and Southern Californians heading to the 23rd annual Venice Art Walk may be in for a shock. The bohemian community depicted in the back of your consciousness and in the front of guidebooks is ...

LA's urban centers are subject to migratory movements that are like weather patterns—impervious to rent control, affordable housing trust funds and other kinds of government intervention. Moderate ...

Those of us who follow urban development issues are well aware of the neighborhood busybody who organizes others to stop new developments. It’s one reason why California housing is so expensive, as it ...

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 ...

AAPGMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend ...

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 ...

Gentrification can become a problem for some people while at the same time benefiting others. It can be a problem because buildings can be built or they can be knocked down and a person’s neighborhood ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On May 6, 2022, Adam Baz, a resident who lives near El Sereno, a Northeast Los ...

After extensive research, I have concluded that gentrification has led to an increase in homelessness. In fact, gentrification is the progression of innovating the lower or working class family houses ...