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In the Face of Gentirification: Case Studies of Local Efforts to Mitigate Displacement
Architecture News - Jun 27, 2008 - 11:25 6248 views
Concern, and anger, over gentrification has grown in communities across the country as housing rental and sales prices have soared. Housing markets strengthened during the 1990s along with the national economy, and have remained strong even while the economy began to slow down in the spring of 2000, one of the few sectors to do so. Decreases in affordable housing units have accompanied the higher prices in many places, and there are numerous reports of resident displacement from neighborhoods long ignored that now attract higher-income households.
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