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The Block Watcher program was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The program was revived in 2013 across several neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy and Astoria, and then halted again in recent…

ByKelly Ng 2Comments

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Oct 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

What’s Next for Majora Carter’s ‘Self-Gentrification’ Hub in the South Bronx?

The activist turned developer pitched a community land trust based not around collective ownership of affordable housing but private owners with deep roots in gentrifying areas. Not everyone loved the…

BySadef Ali Kully 4Comments

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Jun 2018

Economy Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Boost to Local BID Has Some Inwood Rezoning Skeptics Worried

A city grant to the Washington Heights Business Improvement District and a group of Inwood arts organizations is part of the city’s Inwood Action Plan aimed at shoring up local…

BySadef Ali Kully 13Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

The Gray Saga: A Two-Century Struggle to Preserve Black Wealth in Brooklyn

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.…

ByAimee VonBokel 5Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Video

Video: Displacement Around the World, Lessons for and from NYC

An author from our recent ‘Global Squeeze’ series discusses the project and its findings.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

The Lessons NYC Activists Have for Those Fighting Displacement the World Over

Learn from defeat. Think big. Follow the money. And organize, organize, organize.

ByDaniel Bates 2Comments

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness

To Save a Stadium for the Middle Class, Manila Advocates Used Preservation as a Tool

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.

ByPurple Chrystyl Romero 1Comment

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Nairobi Slum Dwellers Feel Let Down by the ‘Promised Land’

A scheme to replace shanties with newly constructed housing for the poor was undermined by bad economics and a lack of trust.

ByWacera Ngunjiri 1Comment

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Hijacked Buildings and ‘Shock and Awe’ Tactics in Johannesburg’s Low-Income Black Neighborhoods

After apartheid, many Blacks left South Africa’s townships in a search for a better life in the big city. Now they see government, landlords and private-security firms banding together to…

ByDaylin Paul 0Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Much Dread, Some Hope at Inwood Rezoning Community Discussion

Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 13Comments

Crime Spike in Bed-Stuy Spurs Call for Block Watchers

What’s Next for Majora Carter’s ‘Self-Gentrification’ Hub in the South Bronx?

Boost to Local BID Has Some Inwood Rezoning Skeptics Worried

The Gray Saga: A Two-Century Struggle to Preserve Black Wealth in Brooklyn

Video: Displacement Around the World, Lessons for and from NYC

The Lessons NYC Activists Have for Those Fighting Displacement the World Over

To Save a Stadium for the Middle Class, Manila Advocates Used Preservation as a Tool

Nairobi Slum Dwellers Feel Let Down by the ‘Promised Land’

Hijacked Buildings and ‘Shock and Awe’ Tactics in Johannesburg’s Low-Income Black Neighborhoods

Much Dread, Some Hope at Inwood Rezoning Community Discussion

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