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A new study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition identifies more than 1,000 neighborhoods in 935 cities and towns where gentrification occurred between 2000 and 2013, noted Kallman. In 230 of those neighborhoods, rapidly rising rents, property values and taxes forced more than 135,000 residents to move away.
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Jesse Van Tol, chief executive of the NCRC, told The Washington Post gentrification can signal economic investment — though it has often come at the expense of culture and community pre-dating the investment.
Gentrification is happening across the country, but conventional wisdom would have you believe that much of the most vigorous activity is centered around West Coast cities in the midst of a tech boom.A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based policy group, casts some serious doubt on that assumption.
Data released this month by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) in tandem with several grassroots organizations found that seven cities account for half of the country’s overall gentrification.
A new study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found substantial levels of gentrification in many big city neighborhoods, but concluded there was no area of Evanston that is experiencing gentrification.
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Though third-largest by population, Chicago ranked seventh in the number of census tracts that gentrified between 2000 and 2013, according to the report “Shifting Neighborhoods,” released last week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, based in Washington D.C.
The institute which conducted the study, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, defines gentrification as the process by which money is invested in lower-income areas, causing increased property values and the entrance of higher-income residents. In recent years, as Philadelphia’s former industrial districts like Fishtown and Kensington have risen in value, the displacement which followed has disproportionately affected Latino and black residents.
A new interactive map shows which Baltimore neighborhoods have been gentrified and which groups of people were ultimately forced out of their homes as a result. The map was one element in a groundbreaking study published this week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
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Between 2000 and 2013, Washington, D.C., experienced the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any U.S. city, according to a study released Tuesday by the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
A new interactive map shows areas near Prospect Park’s southern have seen significant gentrification while a swath of East Flatbush is primed for the economic shift to occur, according to National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit.
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The National community Reinvestment Coalition released a report about the gentrification in America and it predicts that Brownsville, a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, is next to experience a wave of gentrification.
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Keybank has awarded Anchorage Community Land Trust with a $75,000 grant as part of a $16-billion community benefits agreement with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
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Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City and Philadelphia are among seven cities that account for nearly half the gentrification in the United States, according to a study released this week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Diego round out the top seven. In contrast, researchers found that medium and small cities were unlikely to be touched by gentrification.
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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s study of that 13-year period found that the District had the highest percentage of gentrifying neighborhoods out of all the cities analyzed.Washington also experienced the highest “intensity” of gentrification in the country, according to the researchers who examined changing housing markets, population demographics, and levels in income and education in major U.S. cities.
“When you invest in a place without investing in the people, what happens is you’re displacing people,” said Jesse Van Tol, Chief Executive Officer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
