The New Iberoamerican Gentry

A collection of links about gentrification (pt/en/es)

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Rev. Ciudades Estados Política [online].  2021,  vol.8, n.2, pp.17-32. Epub May 13, 2022. ISSN 2462-9103.

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Tradição negra da Bela Vista, em São Paulo, resiste ao apagamento histórico

No bairro da Bela Vista, na região central de São Paulo, a pequena capela em homenagem a Santo Antônio de Categeró é um dos marcos da resistência ao apagamento da história negra na capital paulista. A capela existe há 26 anos no quintal da benzedeira Tia Eliza de Luca, carioca de 64 anos, que mudou-se para a região em meados dos anos 90. “Santo Antônio do Categeró é negro, nasceu na África, onde hoje é a Líbia e foi escravizado para a Itália. Lá foi amigo de São Benedito, os dois trabalharam no mesmo mosteiro. Santo Antônio do Categeró é o protetor dos pobres e tem feito muitas graças para qu

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It’s but one example of an entire hipster movement — can it be called a movement when it’s a subculture rooted not in political consciousness, but in capitalism? — that has brought with it an ethos of poor-culture appropriation and the “re-invention” of things that have largely been tools of survival for poor, disabled, working class, and/or communities of color for decades. Another example: when I lived in Utah, it was common for people (and specifically, white people from wealthy Mormon families) to want to take me along dumpster diving, or on Food Not Bombs drop-offs at the local anarchist house. At the time, I felt complicatedly about it — I still do — mostly because I am a person who understands the complications of family relationships, and that coming from families that don’t accept you (the reality for many queer folks in religious states) means that you may not have access to the resources you need to survive. But what became apparent to me in witnessing these dumpster excursions and FNB drop-offs is that the food was not going to any folks of color, despite the fact that I knew native folks in the community (who were queer and single parents to young children) who could barely scrape by on food stamps. The drop-offs were happening at a white anarchist collective filled with people who were choosing not to participate in the system of capitalism. And I couldn’t help but think: that must be nice. To have that choice. A friend told me of a similar phenomenon in her city. “They go on welfare, so they don’t have to participate in capitalism,” she said. “Yet they participate in a culture that denounces people of color who go on welfare.” She’s right — the same people of color who may go on welfare out of necessity, out of the systemic oppression that makes it difficult for them to have the same access to upward mobility, are considered socially uncouth and lazy, while white anarchists (in this context) are praised for their radically subversive actions.

The Troubling Trendiness Of Poverty Appropriation

tldr walden pond was yuppie bullshit in 1854 and it’s yuppies bullshit now

poor ppl don’t want simplicity, they want //stability//, and feigning the **simplicity** of the lower classes as a way to bring **authenticity** into your effortless stability is about as clear a sign you can give that you don’t know how much better off you already are

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Once excluded from home lending by discriminatory policies, Five Points, other neighborhoods now faced with being unaffordable, study shows

New research shows many American cities continue to grapple with depressed home values in neighborhoods that were subject to the discriminatory lending policy known as redlining some 50 years after…

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'First Come the Artists': Do the Arts Really Lead to Gentrification?

A new study finds that arts establishments are actually more common in affluent and already gentrified—not gentrifying—areas.

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Gentrification's ground zero: the rise and fall of Hoxton Square

Twenty-five years ago, this London neighbourhood was the wild centre of the YBA art boom – now it’s a corporate “campus”. So what happened to Hoxton?

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Gentrification, Alienation, and Homelessness: What Really Happens When Amazon Moves to Town?

With the opening of Amazon's Spheres in Seattle and plans for a 'HQ2' in another city underway, a Seattle native considers what Amazon has done to its home city

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Curbing the Power of Airbnb in New York City

A report suggests that home sharing has raised rents, fueled gentrification, and removed housing from the rental market. But the company's numbers tell a somewhat different story.

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Five Points Protests Show Fighting Gentrification is a Matter of Collective Action

Denver residents respond to ink!’s pro-gentrification marketing campaign, reminding us that collective action is the way forward in staking out rights to the city.

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Un-gentrifying Portland: scheme helps displaced residents come home

The first of its kind in the US, a Portland housing-assistance policy is an effort to atone for the sins of gentrification

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How Big Business is Gentrifying Small Town America

Over the past two decades, the arrival of big businesses has been a driver of gentrification processes. But new trends suggest that similar effects are taking place in small-to-mid-sized U.S. towns.

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Despite Gentrification, Black D.C. Neighborhood Gets First Bookstore in 20 Years

"A mother came in here and brought her son specifically to show him that a Black man owns this bookstore."

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How 'The Real World' Was Really the Story of Gentrification

It's 1992 and gentrification has yet to become a household term, but MTV's The Real World, perhaps without realizing it, is already monetizing the trend. Even in the show's first season, which took...

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As 'Gentrification' Turns 50, Tracing Its Nebulous History

In 1964, British sociologist Ruth Glass was seeking a word to sum up what she saw happening in the London borough of Islington, where creative young professionals were suddenly re-appraising the...

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Did the Housing Crisis Start in the Suburbs?

Economist Issi Romem suggests the low density of inner suburbs makes housing more costly and pushes sprawl farther out.

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A Comic Book Battle Against Gentrification in St. Paul

The up-and-coming Frogtown neighborhood is launching its small area plan in cartoon form.

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Is gentrification inevitable – and inevitably bad?

Since the term was first coined in 1960s London, gentrification has come to be regarded like a law of nature or scientific fact – but now some communities are finding ways to challenge the familiar stereotypes