gentrification

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.

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.

Transit stations increase nearby jobs and populations, but they could also contribute to displacement. What can we do differently?

Niche groups on Facebook help the LGBTQ community find affordable housing with folks who share their values.

We sit down with Carlynn Newhouse, a spoken word artist, to discuss her latest poem on gentrification in Seattle and D.C.

What does gentrification mean? Is there anything that can stop it? Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute joins the Shot & Chaser podcast to talk all things gentrification.

Holmdel, New Jersey, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land, raising a question about planners’ ethical obligations to speak up against such moves.

How do you address a history of anti-Asian housing discrimination? Not by destroying Asian American communities.

We must continue studying and fighting gentrification, rather than abandon the concept altogether.

Gentefied. In the Heights. Vida. How do storylines and portrayals of gentrification in cinema stack up to how it plays out in real life?

The word “gentrification” has become a widespread and highly debated term. We’ve found that there are (at least) four broad kinds of things that people mean when they say they are concerned about “gentrification.”

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.