New Neighbors, New Noise Complaints
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.
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Ford Is Upping Its Stake in Detroit’s Downtown Revitalization
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.
How a Local Surf Break Became the Last Bastion of Old San Francisco
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.
How Might We Decolonize the Brooklyn Museum?
In refusing the restitution of stolen artifacts, museums ironically ask us to forget the crimes of the past while serving as custodians of history.
Inherent Bias: Who Is Actually ‘Welcome’ at a Starbucks?
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.
As Airbnb Moves In, Boston’s Chinatown Sees Its Culture—and Demographics—Change
Short-term rentals are spreading through Chinatown, displacing residents and changing the culture of the neighborhood in the process.
Airbnb Is Coming for Your Neighborhood
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.
Fighting Gentrification With the Holy Spirit
A small church in Minneapolis is working to stave off the effects of rising neighborhood housing costs by unifying communities through religion.
Spike Lee’s Gentrification Problem
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.
The Lost Idealism of New York’s High Line Park
Public art works in the elevated park provide insights into the ills of urban displacement in the neighborhood that surrounds it.