“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 ...

New Yorkers of a certain era who lived in the outer boroughs recall a time when we used to have to venture into Manhattan to ...

90 years after many Black Triangle neighborhoods were redlined by the federal government, the process is now happening in reverse in many of the same communities -- long-distressed or historically ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Barrio Logan is known for its vibrant Chicano History, so much so that Chicano Park houses the largest collection of Chicano murals in the world. Many of the long-time businesses and ...

Dramatic changes are playing out across parts of urban America, making many neighborhoods hardly recognizable from a relatively short time ago. A new class of more affluent residents is moving into ...

Ocejo is professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City One ...

Study reveals that gentrification heightens fear of displacement among older Black adults in gentrifying neighborhoods, impacting their health and well-being.

The study measured gentrification by identifying neighborhoods with low median incomes and low property values and monitored changes over time. With economic gentrification usually comes racial ...

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 ...

Ask three different people what they think gentrification is, and you might get three different answers in return. The term, which refers to the economic development of a low-income area that ...