The first of its kind in the US, a Portland housing-assistance policy is an effort to atone for the sins of gentrification
The Guardian: Un-gentrifying Portland: scheme helps displaced residents come home Read More »
An analysis of 31 million mortgage records made available under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act found 61 metro areas across America where people of color were denied conventional home purchase loans at significantly higher rates than whites.
WTOP: Kept out: loophole in law for the poor spurs gentrification Read More »
Uphams Corner city officials, with the help of the community, are working to acquire properties and revitalize their city.
Boston Globe: How the city plans to beat gentrification in Uphams Corner Read More »
Gentrification has become a more capacious idea lately. The poor are still gentrification’s victims, but in this new meaning, the harm is not rent increases and displacement — it’s something psychic, a theft of pride and an appropriation of culture.
New York Times: When gentrification isn’t about housing Read More »
A new report, produced in collaboration with NCRC, examined mortgages in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in California. Many went to wealthy borrowers.
Does mortgage data reveal gentrification in California? Read More »
