Jacob L. Vigdor, in his essay “Does Gentrification Harm the Poor?” addresses the topic of whether gentrification disadvantages poor households, and offers two different possible explanations of the causes of these distributional effects on neighborhoods. One view holds that gentrification of urban neighborhoods causes the harm to the disadvantage households, […]
Daily Archives: April 2, 2019
The whole premise of gentrification in a neighborhood, or how some may refer to as “rejuvenation” / “revitalization” is almost paradoxical. Based off of unfair provisions which favor traffic and follows capital, gentrification almost seems inevitable post economic-crises (fiscal crisis of 1975). Like the Russification of Brighton Beach, Stabrowski narrates […]