Desha Wilson has lived in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for 37 years, but gentrification has made him feel like an outsider in his own community.
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Can This Wellness-Focused Project In One Of Philly's Poorest Neighborhoods Be A 'Case Study' For Opportunity Zone Development?+
TPP Capital Management is working against decades of disinvestment to build a wellness-focused community never before seen in Philadelphia.
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The Palestinian City, the Song, and Settler Colonial Gentrification: On “Better than Berlin”
Palestinian singer, Faraj Suleiman, has released an album in collaboration with the novelist, and songwriter Majd Kayyal. Titled “Better than Berlin,” the album was initially livestreamed on Facebook ...
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Capitalizing on D.C.’s alleys in the real estate picture
So it’s not a surprise they live in a 1900 two-story carriage house in one of D.C.’s hidden alleys. “We’ve made this place our folly,” said Dan Kahoe, co-owner of GoodWood, the vintage emporium in ...
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Philly athletes missing college opportunities as lost seasons keep recruiters away
German Shepherds, gentrification, and good football have complicated Steve Quigley’s quest to build the type of program at Kensington High school that could help change the future of his football ...
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Despite Gentrification, SF Supervisors Shift Left
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is the most progressive in history. And it follows two decades of sharply rising housing prices and hyper-gentrification. Weren’t wealthier newcomers supposed to ...
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Headquarters Caught in Legal Battle Over Proposed Pilsen Arcade Bar
Jordan says the tone of his interactions with some neighbors changed when ... I can see for them not wanting us in the neighborhood is that this is gentrification in their eyes, or they don ...
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The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification
Nowhere was this framing clearer than in his description of how he would change the trajectory ... taking to the streets to block the bulldozers and save the soul of the neighborhood. But if ...
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COVID-19, gentrification, sinkhole occupy local government
Some of the restrictions were eventually eased and others were changed as Gov ... again — in the Fifth Avenue neighborhood galvanized opposition to gentrification happening there and other ...
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In Rare Move, City Backs Off Two Controversial Rezonings That Would Block Botanic Garden Sun
A Kings County Supreme Court Judge struck down the 2018 Franklin Avenue rezoning on Monday, after a years-long court battle waged by neighborhood activists ... is turning,” said Alicia Boyd, an ...
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The Next Page: 'Are you going to tear it down?' asks a Hill District resident worried about ongoing gentrification
As a historian researching gentrification, my work takes me to lots of neighborhoods undergoing change. These neighborhoods ... a gentrifying neighborhood in Decatur, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.
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Why D.C.’s Affordable Housing Protections Are Losing a War with Economics
This story is part of a series on gentrification ... change throughout the country, race is a central issue. Even though Columbia Heights’ population grew between 2000 and 2010, the neighborhood ...
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The gentrification effect: lower crime, more displacement
But as USC’s impact on the surrounding community continues to grow, anti-gentrification activists are questioning ... people who have lived there for years. "I’ve watched [my neighborhood] change," ...