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How Detroit techno is preserving the city’s beating heart in the face of gentrification

For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend.

The Conversation · May 23, 2024

Gordon Ramsay pub squatters open venue as community cafe 'for victims of gentrification'

The squatters held their first event, a ‘Paint ‘n’ Chinwag’ session, inside the York and Albany pub on Monday

Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2024

Camden Art Cafe: Everything we know so far about the squat that's taken over Gordon Ramsay's pub

A group of squatters have announced their plans to turn Ramsay’s Camden outpost into an art space and cafe open to “victims of gentrification”

Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2024

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OPINION - One of London’s most unloved streets is getting a glow-up

The remarkable west London gentrification tide simply passed by this W2 location.... until now

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2024

How the Young British Artists drove gentrification in Hoxton and Shoreditch

Who could have thought that artists looking for cheap studios in the early 1990s would have helped pump London property prices to insane levels, asks Peter Carty

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2024

Red Pitch playwright Tyrell Williams: ‘People spend so much of their lives in these places – and then it’s taken away’’

The writer has gone from creating viral comedy to a play about football and friendship between a group of teens amid the gentrification of south London. ‘I’m never as nervous as when I played 11-a-side,’ he says

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024

Are we witnessing the slow death of Peckham? How residents are battling big business to save the area's soul

The south London neighbourhood has never been so happening — which may be its downfall. As luxury housing and rising rents loom, residents are battling ‘gentrification on steroids’

Evening Standard · Feb 14, 2024

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‘A way to build on our ancestral legacy’: artists reclaim a major center of Black culture

Freedmen’s Town was once a destination for Black people after the civil war but after decades of decline and gentrification, a new exhibition aims to take it back

The Guardian - US · Feb 1, 2024

How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’

A documentary, Razing Liberty Square, examines the plight of families in Liberty City as developers ‘revitalize’ community on desirable higher land

The Guardian - US · Jan 29, 2024

London council estate resident wins battle over misuse of planning law

Aysen Dennis, who fought gentrification of Aylesbury estate, says high court ruling is ‘brilliant, brilliant news’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024

Shock to the cistern: the riotous, revealing world of graffiti in public bathrooms

Since ancient Rome, public bathroom scrawl – or latrinalia – has proved its power to entertain and enrage as well as highlighting society’s most divisive issues. But can it withstand gentrification?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2023

Could Emily afford to rent in Paris? An author's guide to surviving gentrification

Journalist Cole Stangler is the author of "Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light". His book delves into the phenomenon of gentrification in the French capital, with high rents pushing many residents out to the suburbs, while also celebrating the neighbourhoods that still remain affordable for…

France 24 · Dec 13, 2023

Gun violence rate higher in gentrified neighborhoods, study finds

Researchers found firearm injury incidence rate was 62% higher in neighborhoods gentrified between 2014 and 2019

The Guardian - US · Dec 8, 2023

Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem review – death of a neighbourhood

This kaleidoscopic fictionalised memoir is a compelling chronicle of gentrification, filled with a melancholy humour

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023

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The Conversation · Nov 22, 2023

Are rents rising in your Philly neighborhood? Don't blame the baristas

Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the “shock troops” of urban gentrification – and it’s no different in Philadelphia. These servers of artisanal coffee contribute to economic and demographic changes in neighborhoods in two ways.

Salon · Nov 19, 2023

"Curse" & curb appeal of gentrification

The couple on "The Curse" claim there are no losers, reminding us that on community rehab shows there always are

Newcastle Herald · Nov 15, 2023

Landmark site at gateway to Newcastle deserves a show-stopping plan

I COMPLETELY agree with Bradley Perrett's vision for the remaining Honeysuckle development ("Honeysuckle idea simply sucks", Newcastle Herald, 10/11), the supposed centrepiece of the city's waterfront development. No one would deny the need for more social and affordable housing, but not on the remaining section of Honeysuckle. There is an…

Al Jazeera · Nov 8, 2023

Yusef Salaam elected unopposed to a central Harlem district in US

Wrongly convicted as a teenager over a 1989 rape, Salaam campaigned on easing poverty and tackling gentrification.

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

‘Transience goes with the territory’: Bristol’s The Invisible Circus packs its bags after 20 years

Founders say they have no idea where they will go next as gentrification ends their long residency on an industrial estate

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Proposed law would protect South Shore from gentrification threat near Obama Center

Ald. Desmon Yancy’s housing preservation ordinance seeks to address the South Shore neighborhood’s affordable housing crisis — an issue that has been festering for years.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Fighting gentrification in Little Village, residents look to create a housing co-op

Worried about being priced out of their community, a group is exploring how to buy a building together and live there: “I don’t want to leave,” one person says. “There are many people who love Little Village but had to leave.”

The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2023

In Hawaii, concerns over 'climate gentrification' rise after devastating Maui fires

The fires that broke out on Maui last week have exacerbated Hawaii’s housing crisis as more than more than 3,000 buildings in Lahaina were damaged or destroyed, leaving many wondering if homeowners can afford to rebuild

The Conversation · Aug 16, 2023

17 of the best political Edinburgh Fringe shows to watch this year, tackling issues from gender to climate change

I’m at the Edinburgh Fringe this year directing CREEKSHOW, a play about the gentrification of Deptford. While here, I’ve watched as much politically minded work as I’ve been able to. With 3,031 registered shows a complete survey would be impossible, but below are some of my picks of the more…

The Conversation · Aug 13, 2023

How Airbnb is fuelling gentrification in Toronto

The average asking price for a rental unit in Canada reached $2,042 in June, marking a 10.2 per cent increase from 2022. Metropolitan districts are particularly affected by rising rental costs, with some local families forced to relocate due to a lack of affordable housing.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2023

Witness by Jamel Brinkley review – downbeat tales of New York

Gentrification is a recurring theme in the Brooklyn writer’s second short-story collection

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