Tag: Gentrification

Community Land Trusts Are Working to Create New Homeowners

Born of the Civil Rights Movement, community land trusts are working to preserve neighborhoods and create new homeowners, from New York to California.

Little Haiti Residents Fear Losing Their Miami Community to Gentrification

The Miami neighborhood’s proximity to hip restaurants and shops and its relative safety from flooding have attracted investors and developers who are pushing out longtime residents.

I-81 is Crumbling and Hated in Syracuse, But Removal Is Complicated

The Interstate 81 viaduct in Syracuse effectively destroyed a Black neighborhood when it was built, and it has been falling apart ever since. But getting rid of it is complicated.

Do New York’s Affordable Housing Lotteries Fuel Segregation?

An eight-year legal battle over whether community preferences for low-cost housing violate housing discrimination law has been cleared for trial.