Status Updates From Gentrification Is Inevitabl...

“The truth is that no one is going to hand us the gentrification-proof city we want. We have to imagine it, we have to believe in it, and we have to do it. Even if the doing is simply an action that saves one family from displacement, keeps one affordable food supplier open, or maintains one bench where seniors can gather, it is a necessary piece of the puzzle…Another city is possible.”

“How we talk about gentrification matters. Although it is important to be clear about the violence of displacement…there is a fine line between diagnosing harm and offering a prognosis of unavoidable demise…We have to be aware of the danger of ceding the cause, which ultimately lets those in power off the hook and solidifies…capitalist modes of development and the inequalities it produces.”

“[gentrification] needs to be understood alongside careful attention to factors like gender, race, heteronormativity, age, and colonialism…When researchers insist on foregrounding class at the expense of other power relations, we are not just missing something. We are misunderstanding the process itself…this will not actually help us move toward the end goal of all this research: resisting gentrification.”

good so far, showing attention to nuance. I appreciate the interviews and qualitative data. it comes off as much more professional than my last nonfiction read about cities.