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 has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. However, in a process known as ecological, green or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rendering of a patio at The Plant House, planned by Concept Neighborhood in Houston's East End. (Rendering courtesy of Cultivate Land) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a ...

Kim Cuevas-Reyes, a 38-year-old cellphone store owner, snuck into Lahaina last Friday to see the remnants of her home with her own eyes. She took backroads and walked. What she saw stunned her. “When ...

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