Centuries before the words "gentrification" and "displacement" drifted into the vernacular of urban planners, politicians and advocates, the practice of displacing Black families, razing their ...

Camilo Flores, the Attorney General of Osa, strongly criticized Costa Rica’s development model, describing the country’s gentrification phenomenon as a form of “neo-colonization.” Flores pointed out ...

The study measured gentrification by identifying neighborhoods with low median incomes and low property values and monitored changes over time. With economic gentrification usually comes racial ...