Displacement

There’s a history in D.C. that replacing deteriorating public housing buildings begins by displacing many of the residents who live there. Though many are generally eager for better housing, they feel rooted in neighborhoods they’ve lived…

Washington, D.C. is one of the few major cities in the entire country where gentrification is actually displacing people from their neighborhoods, a new study has found.

In most American cities, gentrification has not pushed low-income residents out of the city they call home, according to a new study.

A recent National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) study confirms what everyone living here can feel: Washington, DC, has gentrified more intensely than any other city.

A study that was recently released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition stating that Washington, DC experienced the most intense gentrification and displacement of any city since 2000 has gained a lot of traction. Now, the…

Gentrification or poverty concentration? A new report maps expansion and decline in the 50 largest U.S. metros, revealing the true scale of neighborhood change.

When rich people move in, they often displace residents. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

If you have ever read a government resolution, you know they are written in a way no one speaks.

More than 20,000 black residents were displaced from low-income D.C. neighborhoods from 2000 to 2013, researchers say.

It’s been almost seven months since the epic spring hearing on the DC Comprehensive Plan, a planning and land use document that guides how the city will grow for years to come. Yesterday, October 16 the DC Office of Planning (OP) released…

A D.C. business group that has previously criticized the District’s unemployment and estate taxes as well as its progressive paid leave law for being too costly has a different message in its latest report: Many people are falling behind or…

When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often just want to move black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New School, to an audience at a 2015 conference on equitable development in the…

On a hot, hazy Saturday afternoon, members of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association gathered for their monthly meeting outdoors, in the shade of a large oak tree, across from the place many of them used to call home. Their community…

In conversations across the District, and particularly in the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River where I work, there is a very real and heartfelt anxiety that gentrification and the displacement that accompanies it are sweeping…