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Tag Archives: gentrification
“When the Gentrifier is Black”
This piece by Dax Devlon-Ross on his feelings about being a self-described black gentrifier delivers a lot of food for thought. Very much worth the time to read. A snippet below. Read the whole thing here (published by the folks at … Continue reading
More on Gentrification and Demographic Change
This time from Washington DC, where the black population continues to decrease. From the New York Times: Washington’s black population slipped below 50 percent this year, possibly in February, about 51 years after it gained a majority, according to an … Continue reading
The City-Suburb Switch
The Seattle Times reported today that new housing development in the Seattle area is now almost exclusively happening near the downtown core and totally dead in the suburbs, continuing one of the underlying trends that I found so prevalent when … Continue reading
On the Flight to the Exurbs
The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that Oakland’s black population dropped around 25 percent over the last decade, from 139,000 to 106,000, according to U.S. Census data: African Americans have been moving in large numbers from urban areas to the … Continue reading