The founder of the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network explains why commercial gentrification demands its own playbook ...

Since the year 2000, Census estimates show the median household income in the urban core of Pensacola has grown by 85%. Now, the Pensacola City Council wants to know if that growth has come at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s actually pretty rare. For example, a study by the nonprofit National ...

Springfield City Council holds public hearing on amendment to Court Square Urban Renewal Plan. The City Council in Springfield, Massachusetts held a public hearing Monday on a new urban renewal plan.

Justin Strong grew up in the East End of Pittsburgh (photo composite: America, Catholic News Service) When Justin Strong was a teenager in Pittsburgh during the 1990s, he learned not to walk through ...

Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the “shock troops” of urban gentrification – and it’s no different in Philadelphia. These ...

Eclectic. That’s the word. This place is more eclectic than your Jewish grandmother’s Astoria brownstone. Mismatched chandeliers hang precariously overhead … outside. A full-scale traffic light has ...