Gentrification Links

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Compiling a set of interesting and useful links to websites with gentrification themes is quite a challenge! Some of the major search engines produce over 2000 sites when the word 'gentrification' is entered, and like most search results it is a case of sorting through the junk material and harvesting the useful information. The links listed below are some of the best we've seen, but if we've omitted a great site then let us know!!!

• Gentrification Mailbase - An on-line discussion group, where free subscription by e-mail opens the door to some heated and interesting discussions in the academic and planning worlds.
  
• PolicyLink's Gentrification 'Toolkit' - PolicyLink is a California-based, non-profit organisation who are heavily involved with issues of 'equitable development' in American cities. This toolkit is a very accessible, coherent and interesting set of proposals to stop gentrification going too far.
  
• Dealing with Neighbourhood Change - Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard, funded by the Brookings Institution, have written an interesting report on how gentrification might be managed so that 'equitable development' is achieved.
  
• The Video Activist Network - Here's a set of links to issues surrounding the crisis of affordable housing in San Francisco. Fascinating stuff.
  
• The Fifth Avenue Committee - The website of a non-profit community group in Brooklyn, New York City, who are actively involved in the fight against displacement. Follow links to their 'Displacement Free Zone' to learn more about their strategies.
  
• San Francisco's Gentrification Conflict - Yahoo have usefully compiled a series of articles from the local press on the very recent resistance to the gentrification of San Francisco's Mission District.
  
• Displacement in North Carolina - An interesting account of the relationship between race, class and gentrification, from a lived experience in Carrboro, North Carolina.
  
• Gentrification in Hannover, Germany - Not sure what 'unequality' is, but the University of Hannover have put together a good site with an emphasis on social exclusion in the housing market.
  
• Tenant Net (New York City) - Splendid site decicated to the rights and interests of residential tenants in New York City. A search for gentrification will lead to many fascinating articles.
  
• Loftomania (San Francisco) - Anti-gentrification gazette based in San Francisco, called Planet SoMa. Essential reading for anyone interested in resistance to gentrification.
  
• Resistance in Hell's Kitchen - A superbly written undergraduate dissertation on the efforts of a community to resist displacement in New York City.
  
• Gentrification in Seattle - Media reports on the crisis of affordable housing in the Pacific Northwest.
  
• Manhattan Loft Corporation (Britain) - One of the organisations responsible for the huge increase in loft living in London.
  
• HUD State of the Cities Report 1999 - The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's most recent report. "Inner-city revitalization" is mentioned everywhere. "Gentrification" is not.
  
• UK Urban Task Force Report 1999 - The UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 'Urban Task Force' report. "Urban renaissance" is mentioned everywhere. "Gentrification" is not.
  
• National Trust for Historic Preservation (USA) - An organisation which has a huge effect on the gentrification of American cities.
  
• Historic Districts Council - New York City's Historic (gentrified) Districts. "Slums become Victoriana, and housing becomes a cultural investment with facadal display signifying social ascension" - Michael Jager, 1986.

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