In the News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

During the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Just Economy conference, City Councilors learned the importance of implementing local legislation in order to make sure those capital gains stay in Birmingham’s communities.

Representatives of the DC Board of Education, Bread for the City nonprofit organization, and Movement Mortgage bank discuss the pros and cons of gentrification as response to a study conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition that named Washington D.C. the city with the highest intensity of gentrification.

As wealthy white people moved into these D.C. neighborhoods, 20,000 African American residents were displaced – more than any other city in the nation, according to the report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.Researchers defined the problem in D.C. and other U.S. cities as ‘intensive gentrification,’ or when more than 10 Census tracts within a city underwent gentrification from 2000-2013.