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City Rising
City Rising
The New Tenant Movement for Housing Justice
Post date:Since November, the number of Americans who recognize the importance of local organizing has grown dramatically, and the tenant movement has been ahead of the curve in mobilizing for change from the ground up.
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City Rising
Who Benefits from Gentrification?
Post date:Gentrification is not a force of nature, an inevitable economic trend or a preordained social phenomenon. It is the result of decisions made by real people who run institutions, seek to make profits, and are motivated by greed and power.
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City Rising
City Rising
The Historical Roots of Gentrification in Boyle Heights
Post date:Perhaps more than any other community in Southeast L.A., Boyle Heights' residents are the most at-risk of displacement and a loss of community due to rising gentrification.
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City Rising
City Rising
The Gentrification of Sacramento's Oak Park
Post date:Up until recently, the tight-knit Oak Park community carried the stigma of being a neighborhood with a high poverty rate, gang violence and neglect. For a long time, that was mostly true.
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City Rising
Understanding Rising Inequality and Displacement in Oakland
Post date:Throughout its history, the City of Oakland has been drawn and redrawn at the hand of inequality, with each evolution marked by major demographic and spatial transformations.
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City Rising
City Rising
A History of Housing Practices in Long Beach
Post date:Dubbed "Iowa by the Sea," an influx of white Midwesterners migrated to Long Beach, part of the two million people that moved to Los Angeles County between 1920 and 1930. These out-of-towners largely shaped the city.
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City Rising
City Rising
Gentrification Is About Power: What’s Community Got to Do with It?
Post date:Despite the promises of revitalization and free market exchange for neighborhoods, gentrification is an invading force that has developed out of a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.
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City Rising (Trailer): Gentrification, Renters and Displacement
Post date:Fearing the loss of their community’s soul, residents are gathering into a movement, not just in California, but across the nation as the rights to property, home, community and the city are taking center stage in a local and global debate.
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City Rising
Learn More About City Rising
Post date:A housing rights movement is on the rise, not just in California, but across the nation, as the right to property, home, community and the city take center stage in a local and global debate.
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Lives Were Lost, the Ghost Ship Fire Shouldn’t Be About Politics
Post date:This tragic story about artists who’ve perished brought to light complicated politics in Oakland. But at its heart, it’s a story about people.