Gentrification

A team of researchers mapped the per capita 311 calls for nuisance complaints within gentrifying neighborhoods to find out how the influx of new residents affects racially charged calls to the police.

• By Tanvi Misra

The company just announced its acquisition of the Michigan Central Station in downtown Detroit, an icon of the city's 20th-century glory days and its precipitous fall since.

• By Laura Bliss

Fort Point, a novelty wave located underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, is a flash point in the ongoing struggle surrounding gentrification in the Bay Area.

• By Jack Persons

In refusing the restitution of stolen artifacts, museums ironically ask us to forget the crimes of the past while serving as custodians of history.

• By Aditi Natasha Kini

Starbucks doesn't need to close its stores for bias trainings. It needs to change its entire design so that it doesn't merely reflect the character of host neighborhoods, especially if that character is racist.

• By Brentin Mock

Short-term rentals are spreading through Chinatown, displacing residents and changing the culture of the neighborhood in the process.

• By Melissa Hung

In New York City, Airbnb has raised rents, removed housing from the rental market, and fueled gentrification—and its effects are being felt elsewhere too.

• By Alastair Boone

A small church in Minneapolis is working to stave off the effects of rising neighborhood housing costs by unifying communities through religion.

• By Serena Solomon

Lee's role in gentrification is complicated, despite his vociferous criticism of the phenomenon, because in some ways he's responsible for the Brooklyn of today.

• By Brentin Mock

Public art works in the elevated park provide insights into the ills of urban displacement in the neighborhood that surrounds it.

• By Michael Friedrich

The city's cultural and economic revival remains segmented along stark racial and class lines.

• By Tunde Wey

Edison-era lightbulbs, known more for their fashionability than sustainability, have become a symbol of gentrification in the hipster capital of the world, Brooklyn.

• By Thomas J. Campanella

Sandra Valenzuela and Jorge Baca created Santa Mari La Juaricua to bring attention to communities in the Mexican capital displaced by the influx of wealthier populations.

• By Maya Kroth

Poor planning didn't just aggravate the area's housing problem: it helped create the Valley's growing empathy gap.

• By Daniel Harris

Neighborhood change has long gone hand in hand with the coffee bean.

• By Katie Kilkenny

Experts agree: Creating affordable housing to combat the effects of gentrification is a key factor in tackling climate change. But is it enough?

• By DeAndrea Salvador

California is a fortress of gentrification.

• By Jim Russell

New York's LowLine park has the power to transform the Lower East Side neighborhood. Is that a good thing?

• By Sarah Shearman

As the United States Justice Department plans to release about 6,000 non-violent drug offenders from federal prison, we talk with a researcher and former inmate about what should happen next.

• By Francie Diep

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

• By Jim Russell

Focus more on people, less on place.

• By Jim Russell

With a focus on why people leave, we ignore at least half of the migration story.

• By Jim Russell

Jobs, the real estate market, and social mobility are all major factors in modern gentrification, but food can play a significant role as well.

• By Wes Judd

In Toronto, the most expensive Pan Am Games ever just ended. Were they worth it?

• By Sam Riches