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Gentrification’s Role in the Eviction Crisis

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F or decades, one of the fiercest debates in sociology and urban studies has been about the nature of gentrification: does the arrival of new, better-educated, upwardly-mobile neighbors inevitably result in the displacement of long-term residents? It has long been assumed that gentrification and displacement must go hand-in-hand. Indeed, when she first introduced the concept almost 60 years ago, Ruth Glass wrote that “once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced.” But in the last twenty years, a number of researchers have questioned this relationship. While there’s a large body of qualitative research supporting a link between gentrification and displacement, recent work using large-scale quantitative data paints a more complex picture. When quantitative researchers went looking for signs that displacement was concentrated in these changing neighborhoods, they simply could not find it. But t

Gentrification’s Role in the Eviction Crisis Updates Research Gentrification’s Role in the Eviction Crisis Eviction Lab updates October 2, 2023 Gentrification’s Role in the Eviction Crisis Peter Hepburn, Renee Louis, and Matthew Desmond The Eviction Lab F or decades, one of the fiercest debates in sociology and urban studies has been about the nature of gentrification: does the arrival of new, better-educated, upwardly-mobile neighbors inevitably result in the displacement of long-term residents? It has long been assumed that gentrification and displacement must go hand-in-hand. Indeed, when s

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