Gentrification

Propelled by the go-go triumph outside the Shaw Metro PCS store, the D.C. fixture is promoting a development project billed to save Anacostia.

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

There have been several studies outlining the magnitude of gentrification and displacement over the past few months, with some concluding that DC is one of the most heavily-gentrified cities in the country. Far less consistent across these…

If the massive Backyard Band concert and protest that shut down the corner of 14th and U streets for hours on Tuesday is any indication, go-go isn’t going anywhere, and neither are its fans—the longtime Washingtonians who cultivated the…

Go-go is many things. Dance music, party music, proudly local community music, black music, sacred music. And when it feels like all of those things at once, it’s a model of everlasting life.

When it comes to Howard University and the subject of gentrification, we tend to hear more about the student protests than their academic pursuits.

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.

The percussive, funk-inspired, call-and-response style of music known as go-go is the sound of black Washington, D.C., a homegrown genre that seeped into the city’s bloodstream in the mid-sixties and still pulses through its streets today.…

Some D.C. residents may still think it’s okay to walk a dog across Howard University’s central yard.

Earlier this month someone who lives near Howard University wrote to a prominent District website with a concern: Dear PoPville, I had a bad experience with my (well-behaved, chill) dog on Howard University Sunday around noon. We were…

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 neighborhood debate over music swiftly became something bigger, and louder: a cry for self-determination from a community that is struggling to be heard.

If you head down to Navy Yard for a Washington Nationals game, you’ll notice more restaurants and condominiums.

The exhibit, named 'Hedonist Buddhist', will stay open in Shaw until late June

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…

Community members joined #DontMuteDC to protest efforts to suppress the music that has played at a famed intersection for decades.

What a battle about loud music on a D.C. corner tells us about gentrification, race, and the life of a city.