Neighborhood Change
As community demographics shift and there’s neighborhood change, what are the issues affecting longstanding and new residents alike? When is change desirable, and when is it undesirable? How can it be turned to the benefit of those who need it most?
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Poem: God Bless Deli Speaks to My Now Gentrified Neighborhood
Scientist, poet, and educator Usman Hameedi reads one of his poems about gentrification in New York City.
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Exhibition Explores Black Displacement, Creating Home in Oakland
Learn the stories of two communities where Black homes were destroyed, and see the vision community members have of a future Oakland.
Denver Land Trust Fights Displacement Whether It Owns the Land or Not
Tierra Colectiva, a community land trust in the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in a large affordable housing development.
Mixed-Income Neighborhood Trusts Aim to Capture Benefits of Gentrification for Existing Residents
Each MINT sets its rental mix and target populations locally, but what they have in common is a focus on preventing displacement and capturing the benefits of rising property values for neighborhood residents.
Clybourne Park on Stage, Housing Inequity in Real Life—A Post-Show Reflection
Clybourne Park—a play exploring race, real estate, and community tensions—can set the stage for discussion on the lasting impacts of housing discrimination, gentrification, and the fight for affordability. What lessons can we take from the past to shape a more just housing future?
There’s a Community Oversight Fight Brewing in the Bronx
After organizing and giving input for decades, the community around the Kingsbridge Armory might actually see it redeveloped—and they want to continue to have a say in how it goes.
Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases
Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.
‘Anti-Displacement Tool’ to Direct City Funding to Projects that Won’t Price Out Residents
After a years-long, tenant-led effort, Louisville will use a new tool to analyze whether a proposed housing development can meet a neighborhood’s housing needs and income levels. If it doesn’t, the city won’t subsidize it.
Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing
Manufactured housing communities have long been an affordable housing option for millions of people living in the U.S., but that affordability is disappearing rapidly. How did we get here?
Can We Resist Displacement From Transit-Oriented Development?
Transit stations increase nearby jobs and populations, but they could also contribute to displacement. What can we do differently?
Redlining Maps Didn’t Affect Neighborhoods the Way You Think They Did
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in today’s Black neighborhoods, but recent research shows that’s misleading.
Does Cleveland’s Plan for Public Green Space Pave the Way for Gentrification?
Who gets to benefit from neighborhood revitalization efforts, and at what cost?
Black Congregations Are Developing Housing on Church Land
Many Black churches in the U.S. are developing housing on their property, and becoming stronger activists in the fight for affordable housing.