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Bo-Kaap: the candy-coloured corner of Cape Town facing tourism v heritage dilemma

Some locals in picturesque district of Bo-Kaap are fed up with influx of visitors, and worry about impact of gentrification

The Guardian - UK

A Good House review – superb social satire about race, property and gentrification

A grubby shack that appears in a prosperous neighbourhood is the catalyst for a culture clash in South African playwright Amy Jephta’s sharp drama

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to preserve our legacy’: Black families in Altadena fear displacement after fire

For Donny Kincey, who lost his home and the home he grew up in, ‘vultures are circling’ and threaten gentrification

The Guardian - US

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I had 25 addresses in 20 years – but now I’ve created the beginnings of a new life

Gentrification and the cruelties of the rental market kept forcing me to move. This Christmas, I know I’ll find happiness wherever I am, says Jay Bernard, a writer and artist

The Guardian - UK

Vice President Harris Optimistic About Pennsylvania's Role In Election

Vice President Kamala Harris visits Philadelphia, highlighting its electoral significance and outlining plans to address gentrification issues in the region.

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Lost in Austin: Climate Change, Displacement, and Race in the Texas Capital

The story of Rainey Street is Austin gentrification in microcosm.

Texas Observer

Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor neighborhood. Housing prices rise in response, and longtime residents and businesses are driven out.

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Gail's announces opening date for Walthamstow Village bakery despite 1,700 locals signing petition

Petition signees felt Gail’s could threaten independent businesses and the issue sparked wider debate about gentrification

Evening Standard

‘I never liked Gail’s but that’s not why I’m opposed’: Walthamstow’s revolt and the awkward paradox for middle-class London

In a desirable corner of the capital, residents are petitioning against a new branch of the upmarket bakery chain

The Guardian - UK

Londoners go to war with upmarket chain Gail's over gentrification

Hundreds of people have signed a petition trying to block a new Gail's in Walthamstow, namechecking its divisive chairman.

Fortune

German punks ‘invade’ elite holiday island for third year in a row to protest fascism and racism

The activists are campaigning against gentrification, rent prices and the far right

The Independent UK

‘Normal politics won’t stop it’: housing crisis dominates election in Hitchin

Gentrification is pricing out people from Hertfordshire town where voters are divided over plans to build new homes

The Guardian - UK

Can Montreal Save Its Soul Amidst Gentrification?

Evictions, property flips, and the whims of policy makers and landlords are gutting the city

The Walrus

Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘I got stop and searched the week my hit novel came out’

Hot young writer Caleb Azumah Nelson tells Emma Loffhagen about how gentrification is changing Peckham, and why an incident with the Met shows the police still have a race problem

Evening Standard

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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.

Evening Standard

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

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

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

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Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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’

The Guardian - US

‘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

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 - UK

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

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?

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