BuzzFeed News, February 27, 2020: If You Live In New York, Atlanta, Oakland, Baltimore Or DC, You Need To See These Maps About 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.
To help visualize how minority communities are pushed out by White populations, BuzzFeed News ran an analysis of five of the most gentrified U.S. cities. The results show how the demographics changed between 2000 and 2017 and highlight which census tracts have gentrified in that time.
