Almost lost in the drama of the Council’s final votes on the Inwood rezoning was one member’s vow not to negotiate any more changes to the zoning map until the city committed to study the effect of revisions so far.
Bitterly opposed by many neighborhood residents, the rezoning passed the Council with a single no vote.
Advocates from Buffalo to Brownsville and the LES to LA are voicing concerns about displacement. One local group has compiled a menu of policies to fight it.
Two Councilmembers invited neighborhood stakeholders to draft a rezoning plan. But it could encounter the same misgivings that top-down plans have faced.
While some are excited about possible improvements to the neighborhood, others are worried about displacement.
Through the Civil War and Jim Crow, depression and boom, redlining and deregulation, one Black family near the historic Weeksville settlement managed to preserve its hold on the family property. Until it didn’t.
An author from our recent ‘Global Squeeze’ series discusses the project and its findings.
Learn from defeat. Think big. Follow the money. And organize, organize, organize.
The saga of the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in the Philippines illustrates the possibility—and potential pitfalls—of using heritage preservation as a tool to resist gentrification.
He wrote about the people fighting to preserve their stake in Lagos’s future on the edge of a lagoon.
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