gentrification
Kansas City renters establish citywide tenants’ union
May 26, 2022Resisting gentrification has made them comrades.
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‘Beautifying’ Detroit: Removing blight or removing residents?
May 3, 2022“If we don't build up a better foundation…if we don't give people stable employment, stable transportation—the city won’t last,” warned City Councilor Gabriela Santiago-Romero.
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Resisting corporate-led evictions in Virginia: Interview with African Communities Together
April 22, 2022People's World talks with activists involved on the ground in the fight against evictions and gentrification in Virginia.
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Tale of Two Detroits: Electric vehicle roads for some, oil refineries for others
February 10, 2022One gentrifying neighborhood will get a futuristic road that charges electric cars as they drive, while the other lives with oil refinery pollution.
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‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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