Gentrification and occupancy rights

Two Cheers for Gentrification

Gentrification and community fabric in Chicago.

Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in...

Job Location, Neighborhood Change, and Gentrification

This paper assesses the contribution of employment location to neighborhood change and to gentrification. At the tract level, average household income change is positively correlated both with the change in average pay for nearby jobs and with the start-year average pay for nearby jobs. The relationship between employment location and neighborhood change is stronger for tracts closer to downtow...

Towards an Anarchist Approach to Gentrification

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights