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Gentrification

Florida is home to the largest Haitian community in the US with more than 300,000 people of Haitian ancestry.

Miami’s Little Haiti: What is lost when a community is displaced?

Diaspora

The Haitian population of Miami has remained unchanged since the beginning of the century, with about 30,000 people. But little remains of the neighborhood that Maria and Viter Juste founded in the 1970s that came to be known as Little Haiti.

Tourists stroll down a street that is packed with bars and restaurants, in Medellin's Provenza neighborhood.

Medellín was one of the world’s most dangerous cities. Now, it’s trying to grapple with an influx of tourists.

Community
A woman works out with apartment buildings behind her

How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere

Olympia Auset looks up at the sky and smiles.

Olympia Auset is tackling systemic racism, one vegetable at a time

Food
an abandoned building in Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal is finally in fashion, but real estate and tourism booms have some locals worried

Economics
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In Miami’s Little Haiti, one of the largest waves of evictions is currently underway

Little Haiti, a once predominantly Haitian enclave, has seen a burst of new development and interest from real estate investors and developers because of its central location in Miami. New projects are underway in the neighborhood, rent prices are soaring and Haitian business owners say that they are being pushed out.

This Is Your Bodega on Gentrification

Arts, Culture & Media

When a 250 percent rent hike forced Jesse Itayim to close his family-run deli, a few clever neighbors helped him get the last laugh.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

A bodega owner fights the power, Chris Pratt paints, Fetty Wap meets Doug, Chris Rock weighs in on a rap beef, and songs say “Stop!” to win the internet this week. 

Painter and sculptor Nancy Uyemura

LA’s Little Tokyo is gentrifying and pushing out some of the city’s most prominent artists

Arts

A tight community of artists in LA are pushing back against rising rents. But they worry they may lose the battle.

Industry City salsa party

A Puerto Rican enclave in Brooklyn confronts the realities of rising prices and gentrification

Economics

Antoinette Martinez grew up in Sunset Park with her extended Puerto Rican family. But with real estate values skyrocketing, there’s no way she’ll ever be able to get her own place in the neighborhood.

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