Gentrification

country’s most expensive cities to live. Its high standard of living only increases as the years go by because of the ongoing gentrification. This gentrification transformed the city into being a place for those of middle class or higher and caused struggle for low-income families. By creating the piece, Victorion, Sirron Norris strives to visually express gentrification going on in the Mission District within terms of marginalized groups within Western societies through the use of text,…

Gentrification, Groupthink, and the Right to Housing Introduction What does the right to housing mean? Many perceive the right to housing as a right to refuge from the world, shelter from the elements, a place where a person wants to be, or a place worth fighting for. One can say that the right to housing means less to the majority of housed people, who take this right for granted, than those whose very existence may hinge on this right. The United Nations states that everyone shall have “a…

have analyzed are completely separate from each other, they all have something similar about them. The first way they are connected is through gentrification, as people with money begin to slide into places, like Las Cruces, and sprucing it up by bringing money through tourism with certain attractions. One of the most promising pieces of the gentrification of in Las Cruces is Richard Branson’s Spaceport America, “the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport” (Ausherman). Another key part…

decades where Harlem is no longer considered a slum, but a modern neighborhood designed to attract wealthy individuals and corporate business. The article “Ethnic Cleansing Comes to Harlem” by Mamadou Chinyelu and Figure 1 illustrate the effects of gentrification through a socio-economic…

an underlying assumption—that neighborhoods go south when white people move out and black people move in. If that isn’t enough to roil the revitalization waters, this emerging shift in neighborhood policy rings all kinds of alarm bells about gentrification and social engineering. Baltimore has avoided such prickly issues for the last decade with a community development approach under former Mayor Kurt Schmoke that favored the most decayed sectors in the city. Now, as Mayor Martin O’Malley’s…

The old-fashioned film projector creates vintage look of the City of Los Angeles in the 1950s in the theatre. Scrolls is uncovered across the back wall of the stage, depicting Chavez Ravine, a hillside community of Mexican Americans in L.A. In the stressful atmosphere, a women is wiped out of her home, and the Chaves Ravine is bulldozed. Suddenly, the theatre is lighten up, and filled with big yelling out of a baseball game. We are still in the place, where used to be Chavez Ravine, but now is…

The legal process of gentrification is potentially one of the more easily argued cases, especially in a country that prides itself on its free market. Using 1520 Sedgwick as an example as well I will compare how the ideals of a free market economy would effect it with the realities of the situation. First of all, if the US was a true free market economy 1520 Sedgwick would never have been enrolled in the Mitchell-Lama program because such a system wouldn’t exist unless the government owned the…

While the current state of gentrification prevents it from being overturned or scaled back in the cities and communities that it has affected, there are however, solutions into how it can be made manageable as well as alleviated in places where it has severely been a detriment to the residents. Furthermore, these proposals are not grandiose in nature or outlandish in nature. They are very applicable, real worldly, and have been implemented in areas albeit on a smaller, but yet still effective…

hence their use to (re)present and sell the city. Thus, public (and sometimes private) authorities place great importance on creating, revitalizing, revamping and highlighting these spaces.” (Bélanger, 2012) These events are some of the ways that gentrification helped this area, since it allowed new authorities to use reuse older public spaces to bring together its residents and…

Urban renewal transformed urban landscapes across America during the mid-twentieth century. New York City did not depart from this trend, and the impacts are prevalent today. The practice of slum clearance displaced entire communities, and perpetuated the very idea it sought to resolve. From this, the anti-urban movement sprang forward. This grassroots effort made progress through white middle-class residents as it concentrated on a community’s culture rather than redevelopment. This approach…