The Latest Breaking News from Gentrification

The story of Rainey Street is Austin gentrification in microcosm.

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor neighborhood. Housing prices rise in response, and longtime residents and businesses are driven out.

Petition signees felt Gail’s could threaten independent businesses and the issue sparked wider debate about gentrification

In a desirable corner of the capital, residents are petitioning against a new branch of the upmarket bakery chain

Hundreds of people have signed a petition trying to block a new Gail's in Walthamstow, namechecking its divisive chairman.

The activists are campaigning against gentrification, rent prices and the far right

Gentrification is pricing out people from Hertfordshire town where voters are divided over plans to build new homes

Evictions, property flips, and the whims of policy makers and landlords are gutting the city

Hot young writer Caleb Azumah Nelson tells Emma Loffhagen about how gentrification is changing Peckham, and why an incident with the Met shows the police still have a race problem

For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend.

The squatters held their first event, a ‘Paint ‘n’ Chinwag’ session, inside the York and Albany pub on Monday