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Gentrification is marked by changing demographics and, thus changing social order and norms. In some cases, when affluent households move into a working-class community of residents (often primarily Black or Latino communities), the new residents' different perceptions of acceptable neighborhood behavior and cultural activity of pre-existing residents may be in conflict with the established ...
Displacement may be direct, for example in cases where low-income residents are forced to leave their homes and communities, or indirect, for example when renewal is a catalyst for gentrification and/or housing prices rise such that they no longer affordable to low-income residents. Indirect displacement can also result from the interplay of ...
Miami-Dade County is home to nearly 550 areas with a high displacement risk because of gentrification | Opinion
Environmental gentrification is commonly understood as the process in which urban green space improvements lead to the displacement of lower-income communities, although the exact definition remains a topic of debate. [10] Green gentrification is closely related to urban planning and climate mitigation efforts.
These projects created housing for the middle class while displacing lower-income families and made room for the performing arts complex of Lincoln Center. This post-WWII transformation of San Juan Hill neighborhood is considered to be an early example of urban gentrification. [15] [14]
Today, Raleigh risks making this zoning-driven displacement worse. Not, as you may have heard, by allowing more housing near the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor along New Bern Avenue, but by ...
Community displacement may be a result of gentrification, the informal redevelopment that occurs when new, and typically richer people, move into a neighborhood. It is the result of urban redevelopment of a residential neighborhood to non-residential uses including retail, education, healthcare, and transportation.
The anti-gentrification meetings were launched in January and have attracted concerned community members, local candidates running for office, activists and the curious and concerned.