PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Gentrification can happen very quickly. A single city block can completely change in the span of six months, but the impact on those forced out can last a lifetime. There are ...

UMOJA hosted a panel on gentrification and land justice at the Max Kade Center on Wednesday, featuring the remarks of Philadelphia community activists. Brian Peterson, director of Makuu: The Black ...

N.I.C.E. manager Eric Marsh Sr. helped attendees engage with one another on the topic of gentrification. (Cory Sharber/WHYY) More than two dozen people came together at the Guerin Recreation Center to ...

The University City Townhomes sit near the edge of Drexel University's campus, surrounded by high-rises and an expanding student community. Last summer, the property owner, IBID Associates, informed ...

Society Hill, where Sixers star Joel Embiid recently put his penthouse condo on the market for US$5.5 million, has long been one of Philadelphia’s most exclusive neighborhoods. It’s a distant cry from ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Many neighbors Action News spoke with said they were outraged by the graffiti spray-painted around their Point Breeze neighborhood last weekend. The city said crews came to ...

Institutional investors in single-family rental (SFR) houses cause rents in a neighborhood to increase quickly, but their entrance into a neighborhood doesn’t cause gentrification. That’s the ...

The verdict is finally in: A long-delayed analysis of a new $1.5B 76ers arena indicates that Philadelphia could sustain an NBA arena in Center City, and the development could add $1.9B to the economy.

Past revolutionaries understood that the world and the conditions which have produced it must be closely studied in order to furnish clarity that can make transformative possibilities real. Looking at ...

Members of UMOJA and its constituent groups assembled feminine hygiene care packages for incarcerated Black women in Philadelphia on Feb. 19. Credit: Chenyao Liu UMOJA hosted a panel on gentrification ...