As Washington DC rapidly gentrifies, street dancers refuse to be pushed out

Huck Magazine, August 22, 2025, As Washington DC rapidly gentrifies, street dancers refuse to be pushed out

Earlier this year, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition released a shocking report, Displaced By Design: Fifty Years Of Gentrification And Black Cultural Displacement In US Cities, which revealed how over 500 Black neighbourhoods have been erased by design, with more than half a million Black American residents displaced from their communities and homes via ?“urban redevelopment” projects and rising rents.

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