This Community Leader Is Building an Africatown to Fight Gentrification in Seattle’s Central District
Community leader K. Wyking Garrett, president and CEO of Africatown Community, is designing programs for sustainable Black communities....
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These Fraternity Brothers Are Buying Back Their Neighborhood To Stop The Spread Of Gentrification
Two members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity decided to make some money and buy back their neighborhood to help locals stay in their homes. ...
Ex-Cop Says Atlanta Police Worked With Land Developers to Arrest and Evict Black Residents
A white Atlanta police officer says he quit his job after finding out the police department was working with developers to arrest and evict Black...
Black Lives Matter Protesters Demand White Gentrifiers ‘Give Black People Back Their Homes!’ in Seattle
Black Lives Matter protesters marching through a residential neighborhood in Seattle demanded that white gentrifiers give up their homes....
This Young HBCU Graduate Is Buying Property In Houston To Curb Gentrification
Christopher Senegal is an HBCU graduate that is encouraging Houston's Fifth Ward native residents to fight against gentrification by investing in their communities....
A Black Nashville Man, Afraid to Walk in His Gentrified Neighborhood, Got 75 Neighbors to Walk With Him
A black man in Nashville man who feared walking alone in his gentrified neighborhood got 75 people from his community to walk with him....
This Texas Realtor Created An Investment Company to Help Low-Income Communities
This Dallas real estate entrepreneur created an investment company to help low income residents from losing their homes to gentrification....
Report: Washington D.C Has The Highest Intensity Of Gentrification In The U.S
Gentrification has ravished America's biggest cities and no one has been hit harder than country's capital city, Washington, D.C. ...
Black Barber Opens Harlem’s First Mobile Barbershop After Getting Priced Out of Storefront
Linwood Dillard used creativity and survival instincts to revamp his business after his storefront barbershop in Harlem was gentrified in 2017....
Black-Owned Construction Firm Revitalizes Housing Units in Atlanta to Combat Gentrification
H.J. Russell & Co. built $22.3 million in affordable housing projects in Atlanta to fight gentrification in one of America's largest cities for blacks....