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The Washington Informer: Freedom School bridges D.C. Emancipation Day’s past and present

Many gathered at THEARC to celebrate Washington, D.C,’s Emancipation Day through an event titled “Emancipation Day Freedom School”. This event highlighted the past and present fight for educational and housing equity in the city and around the nation. In most recent decades, DC residents have underwent intense gentrification that led to about 20,000 Black Washingtonians displaced between the years of 2000-2013, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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WTOP: ‘It’s primarily racial’: DC has the most intense gentrification in the country, study found

Washington, DC neighborhoods are being redeveloped and new people are settling into these areas; but what does this mean for the residents who already live in those neighborhoods? Probably displacement. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition identified DC as being the most intensely gentrified city in the country and had displaced about 20,000 Black residents from the years 2000 to 2013 as a result.

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UrbanTurf: The severity of displacement in DC: by the numbers

UrbanTurf, April 15th, 2019: The severity of displacement in DC: by the numbers A study that was recently released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition stating that Washington, D.C. experienced the most intense gentrification and displacement of any city since 2000 has gained a lot of traction. Now, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Institute

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BuzzFeed News: Kirsten Gillibrand is endorsing “actionable” steps to close the racial wealth gap

2020 Presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillbrand is pleased to see that some of her ideas for reducing the racial wealth divide was included in a report authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition titled “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide”.

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HuffPost: Fight to save Black culture in gentrifying D.C. continues after Go-Go victory

A report released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition addressed some negative impacts of gentrification, such as displacement. In Washington, D.C., — the city with the highest intensity of gentrification — local residents have been combating cultural displacement in a cell-phone store that stopped playing Go-Go music due to complaints from new residents.

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Framingham Source: VIDEO: Senators Warren and Markey and Collegues Reintroduce Historic Legislation to Confront America’s Housing Crisis

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and other national organizations endorsed the American Housing and Mobility Act — which controlled the cost of renting or buying a home, reduced the cost of housing, provided assistance to those hurt by Federal housing policies, and provided nondiscriminatory policy practices for financial and housing institutions.

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Baltimore Fishbowl: Study: Baltimore has seen one of the highest rates of gentrification in the U.S.

From 2000 to 2013, Baltimore experienced the fifth highest rate of gentrification in the United States, ranking behind bustling cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, according to a new study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a nonprofit that tries to steer investment into underserved communities.

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Virginia Mercury: As he talks equity, Gov. Northam continues to ignore Union Hill

In light of the racist comments made by the Governor of Virginia, it revealed the racist roots of Virginia. Even 50 years after Congress passed the Fair Housing Act and banned these discriminatory practices, a massive study was released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which researched how redlined communities have or have not changed over the years.

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NewsOne: Gentrified D.C. tries to whitewash Chocolate City by targeting go-go music

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition released a report showing that Washington, D.C. was the most gentrified city between the years 2000-2013. Recently, there has been complaints from “new” residents about go-go music playing in a cell phone store but local residents, who have had no problem with the music for decades, have came together to create a petition to keep the music playing.

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CityLab: Where gentrification is an emergency, and where it’s not

CityLab, April 5th, 2019: Where gentrification is an emergency, and where it’s not Ron Daniels, president of the Baltimore-based civil-rights network Institute of the Black World 21st Century, assembled a group of some of the foremost African American social-justice advocates, thinkers and influencers to Newark this weekend for an emergency summit on gentrification. The emergency

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National Catholic Reporter: Catholic agencies view Washington Archdiocese through people, not power

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.

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