The Latest Breaking News from Gentrification

Who could have thought that artists looking for cheap studios in the early 1990s would have helped pump London property prices to insane levels, asks Peter Carty

The writer has gone from creating viral comedy to a play about football and friendship between a group of teens amid the gentrification of south London. ‘I’m never as nervous as when I played 11-a-side,’ he says

The south London neighbourhood has never been so happening — which may be its downfall. As luxury housing and rising rents loom, residents are battling ‘gentrification on steroids’

Freedmen’s Town was once a destination for Black people after the civil war but after decades of decline and gentrification, a new exhibition aims to take it back

A documentary, Razing Liberty Square, examines the plight of families in Liberty City as developers ‘revitalize’ community on desirable higher land

Aysen Dennis, who fought gentrification of Aylesbury estate, says high court ruling is ‘brilliant, brilliant news’

Since ancient Rome, public bathroom scrawl – or latrinalia – has proved its power to entertain and enrage as well as highlighting society’s most divisive issues. But can it withstand gentrification?

Journalist Cole Stangler is the author of "Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light". His book delves into the phenomenon of gentrification in the French capital, with high rents pushing many residents out to the suburbs, while also celebrating the neighbourhoods that still remain affordable for…

Researchers found firearm injury incidence rate was 62% higher in neighborhoods gentrified between 2014 and 2019

This kaleidoscopic fictionalised memoir is a compelling chronicle of gentrification, filled with a melancholy humour

Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the “shock troops” of urban gentrification – and it’s no different in Philadelphia. These servers of artisanal coffee contribute to economic and demographic changes in neighborhoods in two ways.