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.
Gentrification
The Exhausting Minimalism of Tidying Up
Three new makeover shows hover on the border of entertainment and economic survivalism.
Anatomy of a Successful Anti-Gentrification Protest
Step One: Recruit some German socialist-punk record shop owners.
How to Stop Gentrification
Individuals moving to newly-hip neighborhoods admit they are part of the problem. What can they do?
Who Killed New York City?
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.
Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.
Hacking the City
A new model for urban renewal.
The Rise and Fall of College Rock
How yuppies and NPR gentrified punk
Sushi, Muffins, and Hipsters
A reasonably complete guide to gentrification in The New York Times
I Left My Home in San Francisco
The rise of the white, middle-class anti-gentrifiers
The Real Problem with Gentrification
A phenomenon that revived cities can also make them monotonous
