Gentrification

The mile high city's most historic and culturally unique neighborhoods are at risk of erasure due to the skyrocketing rents forcing out the local population.

The most important reads from our coverage of unions, driverless tech, urban gentrification, and more.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

California is a fortress of gentrification.

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

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.

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

Focus more on people, less on place.

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