While gentrification can help to revitalize rundown urban neighborhoods by bringing in improved housing, retail and employment opportunities, it can also have a negative impact by forcing longtime ...

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor ...

Gentrification has become an increasingly controversial topic within recent years, and colleges expanding into urban communities are partially to blame. Gentrification occurs when there is an influx ...

Urban planners are either praised or criticized for designing our cities. Planner Samuel Stein’s Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, falls in the second camp, accusing planners of ...

A new health policy brief from Health Affairs with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the potential health impacts of urban gentrification on original (or legacy) neighborhood ...

We tend to talk about gentrification as if it’s beyond our control, that replacing old urban houses with identical high-end condos is a law of nature. We sigh as historically Black, ethnically diverse ...

As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, gentrification can seem inevitable. However, scholars have found that it’s actually pretty rare. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly urban, ...

Since the year 2000, Census estimates show the median household income in the urban core of Pensacola has grown by 85%. Now, the Pensacola City Council wants to know if that growth has come at the ...

Gentrification, no matter how you definite it, is changing the face of metropolitan areas in every region of the country and generating social consequences that would have seemed far-fetched just a ...

Cities all over the country are struggling with gentrification, and how to welcome new residents and new development without displacing longtime members of the community. One housing advocacy group in ...

A new deep-mapping computer model can detect visual changes to individual properties, allowing researchers to more rapidly track gentrification within neighborhoods and cities, according to a new ...

A plain, one-story, 1890s wood house of little distinction, barely large enough for a couple and their two children in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, now brings daily offers of $1 million to its ...