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According to a new study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Pittsburgh is the eighth most gentrified city in America.

A recent study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that Washington, D.C., experienced the highest “intensity of gentrification” of any city in the U.S. between 2000 and 2013. According to the study, about 40 percent of the city’s lower-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification during that period, displacing thousands of residents with lower incomes, including 20,000 black residents.

According to a study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, gentrification has historically happened at a much faster rate in the country’s largest cities — Los Angeles included.

A recent study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found DC had the most intense level of gentrification when compared to other cities across the country.

“I thought it was very unusual, the aggressive approach that the OCC took in pushing this bank in the direction that it did,” John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and an outside adviser to Wells Fargo, said in an interview. “I don’t know what to make of it.”

Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, released a public statement regarding the end to the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “NCRC supports ending the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, we are concerned that the fundamental restructuring of the housing finance system contemplated by this White House memorandum and Chairman Crapo’s outline will set in motion further limits on those who have access to the system today.”, said Van Tol.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition authored the study, which identified more than 1,000 neighborhoods in 935 cities and towns where gentrification occurred between 2000 and 2013.

Last week, a new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition reviewed census and economic data, and found gentrification and cultural displacement is most intense in large cities.

A study conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition revealed that 40 percent of low-income communities in Washington, D.C. has experienced the effects of gentrification and as a result, over 20,000 African American residents have been displaced.

The report, “Shifting Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Cultural Displacement in American Cities,” was released last week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a grassroots organization that works to create opportunities for people to build wealth.

In a National Community Reinvestment Coalition report concluding that DC saw “the most African-American residents—more than 20,000—displaced from their neighborhoods, mostly by affluent, white newcomers,” one recommendation is to use the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing process, which, per NCRC, “provides an opportunity for community groups to engage with municipal leadership in the planning process.

The Emmanuel-Brinklow Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ashton, Maryland received a citation from the Maryland General Assembly recognizing their services to underserved populations in Maryland as well as Washington, D.C. — named the most intensely gentrified city from 2000-2013 by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

As for longtime native Washingtonians, particularly low-income African Americans, they’re feeling the crunch to such an extent that over the past two decades, they’ve had little or no choice but to abandon the communities that they, their parents, even their grandparents, once fondly called “home” — desperately searching for alternative cities with housing that they can afford. In fact, according to a new report conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), “Shifting Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Cultural Displacement in American Cities,” the District now has the highest percentage of gentrified neighborhoods in the nation.