'There Isn't A Just Housing Choice': How We've Enabled The Pains Of Gentrification
Decades of unjust policies have led to the devaluing of lower-income neighborhoods. But urban sociologist John Schlichtman says closing the gap between revaluing and devaluing can minimize inequities.
Gentrification is no longer something that just happens in low-income neighborhoods. As the phenomenon displaces communities of color, from Inglewood to Washington, D.C., "gentrification" has been co-opted to include food and culture as well. So, what does the loaded term really mean?
According to urban sociologist John Schlichtman, gentrification cannot happen without disinvestment. In the book , Schlichtman and his co-authors, Marc
