The Racist Origins of San Francisco’s Housing Crisis
For decades, the city used strict zoning laws to target the poor and people of color. Today, liberal NIMBYs are fighting to preserve them.
For decades, the city used strict zoning laws to target the poor and people of color. Today, liberal NIMBYs are fighting to preserve them.
Three new makeover shows hover on the border of entertainment and economic survivalism.
Step One: Recruit some German socialist-punk record shop owners.
Individuals moving to newly-hip neighborhoods admit they are part of the problem. What can they do?
Jeremiah Moss's "Vanishing New York" and Tamara Shopsin's "Arbitrary Stupid Goal" look at what gentrification means for the city—and who's to blame.
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.
A new model for urban renewal.
How yuppies and NPR gentrified punk
A reasonably complete guide to gentrification in The New York Times
The rise of the white, middle-class anti-gentrifiers
A phenomenon that revived cities can also make them monotonous