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The Bronx was the fastest growing county in the state last year. Is that because residents are fleeing there after being displaced from other parts of the city?

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Feb 2016

Video

Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification

The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2016

Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details

Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jan 2016

Uncategorized

Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Nov 2015

Uncategorized

The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor

Conventional wisdom is that gentrification displaces the poor. Research contradicts that—but it doesn’t paint a simple or fully reassuring picture.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jul 2015

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Tenant Protection Effort Breaks Ground and Ruffles Feathers

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…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Jul 2015

Uncategorized

A Biography of East New York

A Brooklyn Historical Society event moderated by City Limits’ Jarrett Murphy

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Jul 2015

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Plan for East New York Tries to Address Gentrification Fears

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.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Jun 2015

In Depth

In Bushwick, One Artist’s Renaissance is Another’s Lament

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.

ByWilliam Mathis 11Comments

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Jun 2015

Uncategorized

An Organizer Speaks: Why We’re Calling Up a Tenants’ Army

A veteran Williamsburg organizer explains the reasoning behind a new organization being formed to resist displacement and, she says, defend renters of all stripes.

ByDebra Medina 1Comment

UrbaNerd: Are Other Boroughs’ Gentrification Refugees Fueling Bronx Growth?

Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification

De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details

Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?

The Complicated Research on how Gentrification Affects the Poor

City’s Tenant Protection Effort Breaks Ground and Ruffles Feathers

A Biography of East New York

City’s Plan for East New York Tries to Address Gentrification Fears

In Bushwick, One Artist’s Renaissance is Another’s Lament

An Organizer Speaks: Why We’re Calling Up a Tenants’ Army

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