Gentrification
The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor
Jarrett Murphy |
Conventional wisdom is that gentrification displaces the poor. Research contradicts that—but it doesn’t paint a simple or fully reassuring picture.
Housing and Homelessness
City’s Tenant Protection Effort Breaks Ground and Ruffles Feathers
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The mayor’s housing and rezoning plan could trigger tenant harassment and displacement, so the city is funding teams of tenant specialists to assist renters in affected areas. Some local advocates cheer the purpose but question the program.
Development
A Biography of East New York
Jarrett Murphy |
A Brooklyn Historical Society event moderated by City Limits’ Jarrett Murphy
Housing and Homelessness
City’s Plan for East New York Tries to Address Gentrification Fears
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
But there’s still lots of daylight between what the de Blasio administration proposes and what a coalition of local groups and activists wants to see.
Brooklyn
In Bushwick, One Artist’s Renaissance is Another’s Lament
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Two Bushwick artists—one native, one new—had a tense confrontation over the role of artists in gentrification. Then they engineered a collaboration of sorts.
activism
An Organizer Speaks: Why We’re Calling Up a Tenants’ Army
Debra Medina |
A veteran Williamsburg organizer explains the reasoning behind a new organization being formed to resist displacement and, she says, defend renters of all stripes.
Housing and Homelessness
Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick?
Neil deMause |
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
Activism and Volunteerism
Brooklyn Community Services Hosts Panel on East New York
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Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) hosted its panel discussion “Brooklyn Stand Up! The Future of East New York. Panel discussed topics including housing, the critical need of basic services, jobs and maintaining the identity of East New York.
Affordable Housing
Fear of City’s ‘Good Plan’ for Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
The lower-income, working-class people along the Jerome Avenue corridor are among the New Yorkers most in need of affordable housing. So why is there so much skepticism about the mayor’s plan to make that neighborhood a focus of his housing plan?
Affordable Housing
East New York Groups Want Details on Housing Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
It’s not quite right to say that East New York advocates are opposed to the mayor’s plan to develop the area. It’s not quite right to say that they’re satisfied with what they’ve heard so far, either.
