Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity? A New Book Suggests Not.
Sam Stein's Capital City offers a blistering and persuasive critique of how real estate dominates city planning—to the detriment of most residents.
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Is Landmarking a Tool of Gentrification or a Bulwark Against It?
From YIMBYs to NIMBYs, the Strand's recent historic preservation is a Rorschach test for activists of many stripes. Who's right?
Resisting Fascism Means Resisting the Gentrification of Politics
America's addiction to mindless sloganeering is enabling a significant threat. In a word, that threat is fascism.
‘It’s Not Just About Art—It’s About Our City’: Why Decolonize This Place Held a Nine-Week Protest at the Whitney
Two organizers from the organization that spearheaded the demonstrations in New York City discuss how their members' background in art and art history informed their nine-week action.
Could Adapting for Climate Change Make Inequality in Cities Worse?
In Boston, a new plan to make parks and infrastructure suited to the effects of climate change is raising concerns about so-called "green gentrification."
Can Community Investment Trusts Help Slow Down Gentrification?
A new real-estate development in East Portland, Oregon, might provide a model for the rest of the country.
Congestion Pricing Passed in New York, but Can It Be a National Solution to Traffic?
The failure of the subway system provided political will for the policy, but it might be harder to rally support for congestion pricing in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Boston.
Amazon Headquarters Left New York, but Will Other Developers?
In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, residents are challenging a new development, charging it won't create jobs for those who currently live in the neighborhood.
Denver Looks to Curb the Rapid Spread of 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.
Our Best Economics Stories of 2018
The most important reads from our coverage of unions, driverless tech, urban gentrification, and more.