While gentrification can help to revitalize rundown urban neighborhoods by bringing in improved housing, retail and employment opportunities, it can also have a negative impact by forcing longtime ...

DETROIT — There is no shortage of vacant homes on Manistique Street in downtown Detroit. Many of the houses here fell into foreclosure during the housing crisis back in 2008. But resident Myrtle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s ...

Urban planners are either praised or criticized for designing our cities. Planner Samuel Stein’s Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, falls in the second camp, accusing planners of ...

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 ...

Chicago (April 15, 2024) – New research published on Monday, April 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) identifies how gentrified parts of a ...

We tend to talk about gentrification as if it’s beyond our control, that replacing old urban houses with identical high-end condos is a law of nature. We sigh as historically Black, ethnically diverse ...

A new health policy brief from Health Affairs with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the potential health impacts of urban gentrification on original (or legacy) neighborhood ...

When new residents and businesses move into low-income neighborhoods, they often deny that they are displacing current residents. In a striking exception, a coffee shop in Denver’s rapidly changing ...

Arising from socio-economic shifts, urban gentrification describes the transformation of historically disinvested neighbourhoods into areas of rising property values, new investment streams and ...

Since the collapse of state socialism, cities across Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans have undergone intense socio-economic restructuring. Market liberalisation, privatisation of housing ...

From California to the Northeast, a funny thing has happened recently in America’s most expensive metropolitan areas: Rents have gone down. Ever since remote workers began fleeing urban cores at the ...