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 ...

Residents gathered in Germantown Wednesday to discuss the impacts gentrification can have on Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. The Bridging Blocks event, a collaboration between WHYY and the Free Library ...

SPRING GARDEN (WPVI) -- Over the years we've seen gentrification throughout Philadelphia. Friday the Henry Group hosted a conversation about gentrification throughout the city. It was held at The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the “shock troops” of urban gentrification – and it’s no different in Philadelphia. These ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A new report called “Displaced by Design” has mapped gentrification in neighborhoods in major cities across the country, including in areas across Philadelphia. The ...

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 ...

Four years after the largest oil refinery on the East Coast shut down, residents in South and Southwest Philadelphia still don’t know what will come next. A Philly Thrive protest at the auctioning of ...

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 ...

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