Resources
The Urban Displacement Project
The Urban Displacement Project is an initiative of UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, community based organizations, regional planning agencies and the State of California’s Air Resources Board. The project aims to understand the nature of gentrification and displacement in the Bay Area and Southern California. It focuses on creating tools to help communities identify the pressures surrounding them and take more effective action. Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, is the Lead Researcher. Learn More [+]
'There Goes the Neighborhood' Podcast
There Goes the Neighborhood is an in-depth look at the gentrification of Brooklyn, New York, from the developers to the mayor’s plan for affordable housing, to the integral role that race plays in the process. It is produced by The Nation and WNYC Studios, and is hosted by Kai Wright. Learn More [+]
Seattle's Comprehensive Plan with Equitable Development Implementation Plan
The Seattle Comprehensive Plan is a 20-year vision and roadmap for Seattle’s future. It is the framework for most of Seattle’s big-picture decisions on how to grow while preserving and improving neighborhoods. In 2016, Mayor Murray’s State of the City address announced a renewed effort to end racial disparities experienced by Seattle's residents of color. Ending racial disparities will require a bold framework for the City’s decisions on policies, programs and investments – one guided by racial and social equity to diminish institutionalized racism. That is the purpose of the Equitable Development Implementation Plan. Learn More [+]
The Portland Plan's Framework For Equity
Advancing equity in Portland means improving the way the city works — starting with how the city government and its partners make decisions, invest, and engage with Portlanders and each other to measure success. The "Framework for Equity" chapter of the Portland Plan explains the framework for advancing equity (longer-term policies and short-term actions). It includes information on what to do — close disparity gaps and focus on equitable outcomes; how to do it — improve participation, build partnerships and initiate targeted social justice initiatives; and how to be accountable. It sets forth a new way of working that puts achieving equity front and center and identifies some of the specific actions needed to ensure that the Portland Plan’s equity framework is strong and supportive. Learn More [+]
PolicyLink All-In Cities Initiative
All-In Cities is a PolicyLink initiative to empower city officials, community advocates, and other civic leaders with the policy ideas, data, and hands-on assistance they need to advance racial economic inclusion and equitable growth. Learn More [+]
The City of Boston's Economic Inclusion and Equity Agenda
This report, released by Mayor Mayor Martin J. Walsh in February 2016, focuses on programs, policies and initiatives that have been initiated or carried out by the Walsh Administration to address racial and economic disparities in the City of Boston. Learn More [+]
NYU Furman Center's The Dream Revisited Series
The Dream Revisited discussions bring together leading academics, researchers, practitioners, advocates, and government officials for thoughtful debates about the challenges associated with segregation and new thinking needed to help address those challenges. The series aims to inform thought leaders on strategies for remedying racial and economic inequality that moves beyond polarized, entrenched positions and engage in a more creative and concrete exploration of how to best reduce economic and racial inequality through neighborhood change. Learn More [+]
An Equitable Development Policy Platform for Philadelphia
This report by the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations makes policy recommendations for a pro-growth strategy that confronts structural and institutional forms of inequality by creating sustained equality in housing, health, education, and economic opportunity for low- and moderate-income households. Learn More [+]
News
Old Confronts New In A Gentrifying D.C. Neighborhood
– NPR, 1/16/17
Will NYC Rezoning Cause or Resist Displacement? Data Paints an Incomplete Picture
– CityLimits, 1/10/17
New SF Supervisor Ronen Moves to Protect Latino Businesses in Mission
– SF Chronicle, 1/9/17
Where NYC Mayor de Blasio’s Rezoning Proposals Stand
– CityLimits, 1/5/17
Would U District Upzone Kill Cheap Housing? Depends Whom You Ask
– The Seattle Times, 12/30/16
SF Planning Director Calls Gentrification ‘Undeniable, and of Serious Concern’
– SF Chronicle, 12/12/16
Will Measure M Lead to Gentrification and Displacement Across L.A. County?
– Los Angeles Times, 11/12/16
Research
Gentrification and Displacement Study: Implementing an Equitable Inclusive Development Strategy in the Context of Gentrification, Lisa K. Bates; Commissioned by City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Gentrification Responses: A Survey of Strategies to Maintain Neighborhood Economic Diversity, NYU Furman Center
Linking Residents to Opportunity: Gentrification and Public Housing, Samuel Dastrup, Abt Associates Inc. and Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University