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Will gentrification respect city's people?

We've lived for over a century in the shadow of grandeur: near the Customs House, known to Thais as rongpasi. "We" means my maternal family and the community of Haroon Mosque. Each day before sunrise, the muezzin's sing-song call rings through the neighbourhood, carried on the river wind towards the…

Bangkok Post

‘Here is the history, the life’: the shrine holding out against the gentrification of Bangkok

Chao Mae Thap Thim, which stands out in a city that has been swallowed up by luxury shopping malls, is under threat

The Guardian - AU

Study: Banning Investors From Buying Homes Leads to Higher Rents, More Gentrification

Home prices were unaffected by a ban on buy-to-rent housing in the Netherlands, but more affordable rental housing disappeared.

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The last stand for Chao Mae Thap Thim

Surrounded by high rises, the Chao Mae Thap Thim shrine is holding out under a wave of gentrification that sweeps across Bangkok. A new documentary, The Last Breath Of Sam Yan, will be screened at Bangkok's independent cinemas to recount an all-out effort to save the century-old legacy of Chao…

Bangkok Post

‘It doesn’t need regeneration’: Peckham’s charm under threat from gentrification plans

The quirky appeal of Rye Lane is threatened by developer’s 14 high-rise flats, say residents

The Guardian - UK

'This is the end of Counterfeit Street': Police seize huge haul of fake goods after storming shops on notorious street

"People talk about gentrification and it's a land grab and all of this, but this needs sorting out."

Manchester Evening News

The 'worst' resort with an awful reputation for 'druggies and Mancunian ex-cons' - but it COULD be paradise

Rhyl scored a measly five out of 100 in the Telegraph's latest Seaside Gentrification Index

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Remote working: how a surge in digital nomads is pricing out local communities around the world

For eight years I have studied digital nomadism, the millenial trend for working remotely from anywhere around the world. I am often asked if it is driving gentrification.

The Conversation

Gentrification can suck the 'vitality' out of a city. This new film captures how

New York City, once heralded as the "city of dreams," where grit alone was enough to make it, is now a place like any other major American city, increasingly made from steel and glass — and also prohibitively expensive. That changing landscape and the dwindling opportunities therein, whether euphemized as…

Los Angeles Times

Chinatowns nationwide resist gentrification

New developments encroach on historic Chinatowns.

Axios

'UK's worst seaside' with surprise attraction and beautiful beach but 'drab town'

Rhyl, in north Wales, has 'no past, no arts or entertainment, no fun,' according to the Telegraph's Seaside Gentrification Index.

Daily Record

Life at 'UK's worst seaside' with beautiful beach and surprise attraction but 'drab town'

Rhyl has 'no past, no arts or entertainment, no fun,' according to the Telegraph's Seaside Gentrification Index. The Mirror spoke to locals to see if that's a fair statement to make

Daily Mirror

Centring race: Why we need to think about gentrification differently

When we think of gentrification, we often think of how a neighbourhood’s demographics and landscape are transformed. Luxury apartment blocks replace single family homes. Trendy cafes replace independent businesses. Affluent families and businesses move in, often pushing out longstanding residents who can’t afford to stay.

The Conversation

Star of new Peckham rom com welcomes the gentrification conversation

‘I love that it gets people talking about something like that’ David Jonsson tells us

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The Guardian - UK

The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?

The likable new release Rye Lane bills itself as ‘a love letter to south London’. But, like Amélie in Montmartre, could it end up damaging the place it sets out to celebrate?

Reason

Ex-Lawmakers, Socialist City Councilmember Fight Putting New Housing on Shuttered Denver Golf Course

An oddball coalition of neighborhood activists and left-wing politicians have opposed plans to convert the privately owned site to housing, citing the loss of open space and impacts on gentrification.

Los Angeles Times

As Hollywood invades Culver City, some residents push back against gentrification

Long known as “the heart of screenland” because of its role in Hollywood history, Culver City has lately taken on a different nickname thanks to an influx of digital video giants — “the heart of streamland.”

Miami Herald

Miami’s hidden high ground: What sea rise risk means for some prime real estate

Miami isn’t known for its majestic mountains. The tallest peaks in the South Florida landscape, in fact, are a series of landfills. The highest point south of Lake Okeechobee is the dump at Monarch Hill Renewable Energy Park, better known as Mount Trashmore, which towers 225 smelly feet above northern…

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New affordable housing opens in Pilsen

Casa Durango hopes to eventually house 53 families at two locations, part of an effort to stem gentrification in the area.

The Guardian - AU

Vacant shopfronts v the WorldPride takeover: is Oxford Street ready for Mardi Gras?

Once billed as Sydney’s golden queer mile, the strip has born the brunt of lockouts, lockdowns and gentrification. On the eve of its first parade since 2020 – and its biggest yet – the pressure is on

The Independent UK

Vlogger faces backlash for calling Bali ‘the whitest island’ in Asia

‘This seems like a video talking about gentrification without addressing it,’ one user commented

Evening Standard

Standing at the Sky’s Edge at the National Theatre review: a stirring musical reinforced with Sheffield steel

Defiantly wedded to Sheffield, this uplifting musical has a universal message about community and gentrification

The Conversation

The fight between Tate Modern and its wealthy neighbours reveals the gentrification of the skies

In the UK, legal cases resolving alleged neighbour nuisances are ten-a-penny. Some – about overhanging trees or leylandii hedges that block out the sun – reach the local press. Few, however, have ever taken up the column inches devoted to Fearn v Tate.

Bristol Post

Fears gentrification in St Pauls and rise in house prices is 'killing' culture

The neighbourhood has seen huge changes in recent years

The Guardian - AU

Can you predict which parts of Sydney will be next to gentrify?

Researchers have developed a model which uses changes in the socioeconomic status of an area to anticipate gentrification

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