Who Is Buying My Neighborhood?
Anonymous corporations own more and more of our cities.
Who Owns the City? Luxury Towers and Supercharged Gentrification
Wealthy workers moving into central, walkable neighborhoods has long caused gentrification, but global capital is exacerbating the situation.
Right to Root
Right to Root: A Community-Centered System for Equitable Development in N/NE Portland Cat Goughnour Introduction: Radix Consulting Group’s Right 2 Root™ is a community-led, community-funded approach designed for community members affected by displacement and...
Gentrification Now Has More than Landlubbers Worried
Deep pockets have displaced modest-income people from plenty of prime urban terra firma. Could our offshore be next?
The Role of Family Wealth in Reinforcing Generational Divides
How can anyone, especially 30-somethings, afford to live in increasingly expensive cities?
Report: Right To Root
Conceptual Designs for Equitable Development in Portland, Oregon
Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?
Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.
May Day Parade Stands Up Against Wage Theft
Activists demand accountability from Power Design, a subcontractor enabling the “race to the bottom” at construction sites around Washington, D.C.
This is the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Public Housing
More than half a million Americans are homeless — the size of a large city.
Houston, We Have an Inequality Problem
Houston, Texas has been segregating at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, the twin ills of rising inequality and increased gentrification have become too familiar in urban America.
Under Armour Wants to Use Baltimore Tax Revenue Without Giving Back to the City
Development projects in cities across the nation are trying to drive out low-income residents, but local activists are taking control with community-based solutions that are beneficial to everyone.
Want to Stop Gentrification? Start a Union.
Like labor unions, neighborhood unions could help residents bargain collectively for affordable housing, housing security, protections for local businesses, and community reconciliation.
A Tale of Two Supermarkets: One Transition Town’s Efforts to Respond to Gentrification
It takes much more than one project or policy to address gentrification. It takes a movement.
“Affordable?” For Whom?
As rent prices soar in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, JPNet’s State of Our Neighborhood forum helps to give community residents and merchants a voice.
DCIFF: The Other Barrio
IPS partners with DCIFF on a film based on a short story of the same name by San Francisco poet laureate Alejandro Murguía, followed by a discussion of it’s relationship to DC gentrification.