BY staff | Jersey City, NJ | 5/14/17
A group of Jersey City educators and workers got together, March 22, to discuss the ongoing threats facing working-class men, women and their families due to the onslaught of gentrification threatening to rip apart the social fabric of New Jersey’s second largest city, Jersey City.
BY staff | Los Angeles, CA | 9/13/15
Marching and chanting, “Vecinos unidos, jamas seran vencidos!” (Neighbors, united, will never be defeated), over 50 community members, families and activists gathered outside of five Boyle Heights homes, Sept. 9, to fight back against displacement and gentrification.
BY Randy Evans | Chicago, IL | 7/01/04
Chicago, IL - Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side are fighting to hold on to our neighborhood. We are threatened by gentrification, which is happening in many poor areas of the city.
Arenda Troutman, Brinshore Development, LLC., Bronzeville area, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago’s South Side, Donna Ramey, gentrification, North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood, Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood, threatened by gentrification, Troutman Faces Unified Black Community, Woodlawn neighborhood
