Gentrification and Displacement

[Jeremy]

"Gentrification and displacement have become so intimately linked in how we talk about certain neighborhoods that they've begun to fuse together, the one word silently imply the other, 'displacement' giving 'gentrification' its sinister tone."

This article provides a few back to back studies that suggest the gentrifying of neighborhoods may not always be such a bad thing. The displacement of poor families from these changing districts may not just be because of wealthy families moving in, and in some cases the gentrification can actually help poor families.

The changing of these neighborhoods is a slow process, and this article suggests that poor families are actually just more likely to move in general, while some definitely leave because of the raise in the cost of living and even due to harassment from landlords.

Read more here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/14/here-is-e...

Here is the article that led me to that one for further reading:

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/no-wonder-we-a...