BuzzFeed News:February 27, 2020, If You Live In New York, Atlanta, Oakland, Baltimore or DC, You Need To See These Maps Gentrification
We have known for years that gentrification has disproportionately displaced black and Latino people from their homes across the U.S., “excluding existing residents from the benefits of a revitalizing neighborhood,” as one study put it. The statistics prove it, we make cultural statements about it, and there’s rising activism around it.
Gentrification in Oakland has become a focal point as the Bay Area gets increasingly expensive. There have also been viral incidences that made national news, like when a white woman called the police on a black family for having a barbecue.
Most gentrified tracts in DC are spread throughout the city’s center, with some recording a decrease in the black population by 69 percentage points.
New York City is a place of block-by-block extremes. As such, the city also gentrified in various boroughs, creating what some scholars at UC Berkeley described as “islands of exclusion in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.”
