Calming the Waters: How to Address Both Gentrification AND Concentrated Poverty

Overheated rhetoric and protest from all sides over neighborhood change are a reflection of the insecurity many of us feel over the future of places we love.

Housing, Herriges, Planning Profession, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesFebruary 26, 2018gentrification, race, poverty, affordable housing

The Week Ahead: Gentrification and the Bias Towards Bigness

On this episode, Strong Towns contributor Daniel Herriges discusses his ongoing series about gentrification.

PodcastStrong TownsFebruary 19, 2018the week ahead, gentrification

Rough Waters: Gentrification and Cataclysmic Money

An all-or-nothing development environment creates a built-in bias toward big actors who can weather wide market swings and are in a position to exploit them for profit.

Housing, HerrigesDaniel HerrigesJanuary 30, 2018gentrification, poverty

Podcast: Are Bike Lanes White Lanes?

Kea Wilson interviews author Melody Hoffman about why protected bike lanes aren't always the best way to get people biking and why a more comprehensive, community-based strategy is needed.

Bikeability, PodcastStrong TownsJanuary 4, 2018gentrification, race

How do Neighborhoods Become Strong?

In Valparaiso, Indiana, a so-called "bad" neighborhood is changing, and its residents are coming together to help direct that change.

Who Benefits From Neighborhood Improvements?

If urbanists want a successful, lasting renaissance of inner-city neighborhoods, they should allow the people who stuck it out through the lean years a controlling stake in their neighborhoods' rebirth.

Herriges, Top Story, HousingDaniel HerrigesNovember 1, 2017gentrification, race, poverty, development

By Any Other Name: Gentrification or Economic Exclusion?

The things that get labeled as “gentrification” refer to a set of real, meaningful, widely held concerns, and that choice of label should never be an excuse to dismiss those concerns.

Housing, Herriges, Top EvergreenDaniel HerrigesOctober 10, 2017race, gentrification, poverty, Economic Development

Podcast: Bikeshare and Equity

In this podcast, Caressa Givens, Community Engagement Coordinator for Milwaukee, Wisconsin's bike share program, Bublr, discusses issues of equity, access, and gentrification as they relate to bike share.

Bikeability, Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 7, 2017bike share, gentrification, race

3 Futures for Mound View

What will happen to this historic working class neighborhood in Cedar Rapids, IA?

Member PostBruce NesmithAugust 31, 2017gentrification, revitalization, neighborhood

What does "gentrification" really mean?

Everyone seems to have an opinion on gentrification. But what does the word actually mean?

Housing, WIlson, Top EvergreenKea WilsonAugust 2, 2017gentrification, race, poverty, page highlight, Economic Development

A Postcard from Marietta

Caution: This post contains graphic images of housing displacement. Viewer discretion is advised.

Top Story, Suburban Poverty, Member PostJoe CortrightAugust 18, 2016Georgia, gentrification, race, City Observatory

Why aren't we talking about Marietta?

It’s apparently acceptable for suburbs to actively discourage – and in this case, actually relocate – low-income renters. By pretending this sort of thing only happens in Brooklyn or San Francisco, we leave the low-income households who used to live in these now-demolished Marietta apartments vulnerable to very real displacement.

Top Story, Suburban Poverty, Member Post, HousingJoe CortrightAugust 18, 2016gentrification, poverty, City Observatory, Georgia, race

How Gentrification Affects Small Businesses

It might not be the answer you're expecting.

Housing, Top StoryDaniel Kay HertzAugust 2, 2016gentrification, City Observatory, small business, local business

Detroit Through the Decades

Strong Towns member and Detroit native, Andy Walker, talks about the changes in Detroit over the last several decades and his hopes for the city's future.

CNU, Member Profiles, Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauJune 7, 2016Detroit, gentrification, white flight, Rocket Mortgage, suburbs

The Urban Ethnic Shuffle

Walking away from a neighborhood is seen as a harmless passive act. Moving in is viewed as an act of aggression and displacement.

The Future of Unlikely Places

Are the suburbs the new frontier for artists, musicians and other countercultural communities?

24th Street, San Francisco

San Francisco's Mission District is an example of everything that makes a Strong Town work: incremental development, urbanism oriented to people rather than cars, a deeply rooted local economy, and a distinctive sense of place. It's also in peril because of decades of collective failure to allow more places like it to be built.

Podcast Show 206: Joe Cortright on Gentrification

Joe Cortright of City Observatory talks about their report -- Lost in Place -- explaining why consistent and concentrated poverty -- not gentrification -- is America's biggest urban challenge.

Charles MarohnFebruary 19, 2015best podcast, gentrification

The Gentrification Paradox

We took a system where gentrification was a positive force for wealth creation among the underprivileged and, under the guise of improving their situation, changed the system in a way that now primarily benefits the wealthy, where it benefits anyone at all.

Housing, Small Scale DevelopersCharles MarohnJanuary 26, 2015gentrification, Tax Code, zoning