As America’s cities continue their halting climb up and out of the last few years, data analytics firm Urban3 foresees a few crises—as well as opportunities—waiting for them in 2023.
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Coté Soeren’s “Resistencia” coffee shop in Seattle is a space for community connection and support, not gentrification.
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As people interested in undoing damage caused by the rise of the suburban development pattern, how should we feel about so-called “McMain Streets”?
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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“You don’t have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one,” says Majora Carter in her new book, Reclaiming Your Community.
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Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
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Not every problem associated with housing is directly a supply or scarcity issue, but housing scarcity is real, and it tends to make just about all the other problems associated with housing worse.
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Coté Soeren’s “Resistencia” coffee shop in Seattle is a space for community connection and support, not gentrification.
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Critics say YIMBYs have an “induced demand” problem.
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A small-scale developer in Atlanta is showing that it’s possible to improve a neighborhood without displacing the people who already live there.
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When you make community-led, incremental redevelopment all but impossible, what you get is the wholesale reinvention of neighborhoods in somebody else’s image instead.
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More research from the Upjohn Institute, following an attention-grabbing study last year, helps us understand the cause-and-effect chains that result when a new apartment building opens in a low-income area.
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Atlanta is one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country. King Williams, an Atlanta-based writer and documentary filmmaker, describes what makes that city’s experience with gentrification unique, why gentrification is avoidable, and why Atlanta’s middle-class is now facing displacement too.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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Urban neighborhoods can appear either stubbornly resistant to change, or prone to sudden, cataclysmic change. One reason is that we’re all constantly adjusting our behavior based on what we think everyone else believes the future holds.
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A pilot project in Denver aims to help low-income homeowners add accessory dwelling units to their property. If it succeeds, it will help people remain in their communities, build wealth, and deliver affordable homes to a new generation of neighbors.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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If you're talking about growth, decline or gentrification and you're not talking about the motivations of residents, newcomers, developers, and everyone else… you've already misunderstood the problem.
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Is gentrification a detrimental force or a positive process? What does the word "gentrification" even mean? Find out from these 5 different voices.
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New investment and residential redevelopment is not the enemy of these communities. It is their best friend.
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