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Inside South Africa's 'hijacked' buildings: 'All we want is a place to call home'

Compelling photos capture the lives of occupiers who say gentrification and a lack of affordable housing in Cape Town have left them no choice but to reclaim space in a city that's squeezing them out.

WEKU

In battle against gentrification, Pilsen residents press for affordable housing

A lot at 18th and Peoria streets, vacant for more than 20 years, has long been the focus of affordable housing advocates. A new round of developer proposals will be sought next year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Destination or gentrification? A sleek new arena opens in the Coachella Valley

LOS ANGELES — For three weeks in April, the Coachella Valley is the center of the world for live music. Its flagship event, Goldenvoice's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, along with its country music cousin, Stagecoach, draw hundreds of thousands of fans to see an expertly curated assortment of…

Los Angeles Times

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What's driving "climate gentrification?"

“Climate gentrification” in Miami is largely determined and driven by capitalist investment opportunities

Salon

What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It isn’t fear of sea-level rise

Miami’s Little Haiti has been an immigrant community for decades. Its streets are lined with small homes and colorful shops that cater to the neighborhood, a predominantly Afro-Caribbean population with a median household income well below Miami’s.

The Conversation

Neighborhood pride competes with gentrification fears for residents coping with Obama Center traffic woes in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood

CHICAGO — When the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase last month, South Shore resident Jane Carson said she took the longer bus rides home in stride because she knew it was for the greater good: a grand community space dedicated to the…

Chicago Tribune

In Athens, gentrification comes for the ‘birthplace of antifa’

What lies behind perpetual clashes between police and protesters in Exarchia

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Black Puerto Ricans' post-hurricane struggle

Gentrification and discriminatory housing policies have driven many to especially vulnerable rural coastal areas.

Axios

‘Healthy food and social justice’: Inside UK’s first Black farmers market

Exclusive: Natasha Pencil and Aisha Jade, co-organisers of the new event, discuss British agriculture’s race problem, the power of growing your own, battling gentrification.

The Independent UK

How a fifth-generation entrepreneur is reinventing a landmark in New York City’s Chinatown

Wing on Wo, the oldest-running business in Manhattan’s Chinatown, is a shop and clubhouse for activists to address issues like gentrification

The Guardian - US

Taking the pulse of Argyle Street: From silent movies to voices rising over gentrification, representation, crime

Argyle Street, a pocket of Chicago’s Uptown community area, has long been known as a refuge for Asian immigrants, but residents worry it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to afford to live there.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Green gentrification’ due to rewilding could force out poorer communities

Report says urban nature restoration projects must be handled carefully to avoid pricing out locals

The Guardian - UK

Boon or threat? Mexico City wrestles with influx of remote U.S. workers

In a trendy part of Mexico City, in a park surrounded by hipster coffeeshops and restaurants, stands a figure dressed in white with hands in prayer like a Catholic statuette: the so-called patron saint against gentrification.

Reuters

It’s not all coffee shops and hipsters: what we get wrong about gentrification

Communities should mobilise against the property industry and its partners, says Leslie Kern, a professor of geography and environment

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Reason

New Loan Program for Black, Latino Neighborhoods Isn't 'Explicitly Racist'

But Bank of America's Community Affordable Loan Solution program will likely be a gentrification accelerating machine.

Belfast Live

Sandy Row residents don't want "gentrification" at Weaver's Cross development, DUP says

Councillor Gareth Spratt says only 5.2 percent of space has been committed to affordable/social housing

The Guardian - UK

Residents of Athens’ historic Exarchia Square resist metro station plan

Protesters say station is part of gentrification scheme aimed at altering historically leftwing area

The Guardian - US

‘It should have been celebrated’: the fight to save a thriving Black school

In Let the Little Light Shine, a high-achieving Black school in Chicago’s South Side fights the tide of gentrification

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6th Street bridge: A civic wonder that reflects LA's promise and its simmering problems

LOS ANGELES -- In its short life, the 6th Street Viaduct has turned into so many competing things to so many people: Soaring civic landmark or roadway to gentrification. Altar to the city's car culture or TikTok playground for general mayhem and lawlessness. Panoramic promenade for Boyle Heights abuelitos or…

The Conversation

City residents who support neighborhood schools are often divided by race and purpose

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Los Angeles Times

Erika D. Smith: They wanted to save Leimert Park from gentrification. Here's how they got one block

As it turns out, nothing about buying back the 'hood to build generational wealth and manage gentrification — as the late rapper Nipsey Hussle so famously encouraged his fans to do — is easy when you're Black.

The Guardian - US

‘The beaches belong to the people’: inside Puerto Rico’s anti-gentrification protests

Locals and climate activists battle against coastal development and privatization of public beaches as luxury condos proliferate

Miami Herald

Gentrification wiping out Miami’s 130-year-old, historically Black West Coconut Grove

For 130 years, the historically Black section of Coconut Grove, founded by Bahamian immigrants, has been a foundation stone for Miami, a wellspring of culture and activism, and verdant, fertile soil for the aspirations of tens of thousands of the city’s African American residents.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh locals want building work on Leith Walk to boost 'working class culture'

Gentrification, over-development and parking are all issues discussed by residents, workers in Leith.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hector Duarte, Gabriel Villa mural bears a message for longtime Pilsen residents: ‘Fight to stay’

It’s about “anti-gentrification but mostly the big impact from investors,” Duarte says. “They buy the small, old houses, and they destroy the character of Pilsen.”

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