As humans, we have a tendency to focus on what’s right in front of us. In recent years, one of the most visible changes to the urban landscape has been the migration of the Young & Restless to the close-in neighborhoods of the country’s large metropolitan areas and the real estate development that has followed. In the past year, there have been countless headlines decrying the trend of coffee shops, craft breweries and loft apartments infiltrating inner-city neighborhoods. It would be easy to think that displacement is the new economic normal, but how many neighborhoods that used to have high rates of poverty have actually gentrified and how many people have actually been displaced by this new development?...
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:20:30 +0000