An op-ed uses the Hurricane Katrina 20th anniversary New Orleans to trace how disaster capitalism and imperial domination drive displacement, deny a right of return, and put profits over people.
Gentrification
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Highway changes could once again impact Black communities
Widening and converting Highway 252 intersections to interchanges may displace up to 150 parcels of land.
Posted inArts + Culture
Not just Rondo: Exhibits show how Interstates uprooted other Black communities
The ‘Human Toll: A Public History of 35W’ exhibit is open Thursdays through Saturdays, in the Main Floor Gallery of the Hennepin History Museum. It will close for good on December 31, 2022.
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Reconnect Rondo: more than just a land bridge
‘I never would have dreamed that I’d have the opportunity to come back to my childhood neighborhood and provide this type of support.’
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Despite gentrification concerns, Met Council, Hennepin County move Blue Line along
Metro Transit’s controversial Blue Line Extension through North Minneapolis will move forward with federally mandated environmental review, which will take up to two years
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The rich are hoarding homes while gentrifying cities
Across the world, skyscrapers and mansions are rising in globalized super-cities, a form of “wealth storage” for the world’s wealthy who are seeking to diversify their asset holdings.
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Residents: Proposed Lexington project could lead to gentrification
Carter, who recently called himself a “proud son of Rondo,” has refused to listen to the pleas of Rondo elders living directly across the street from the proposed luxury apartments.
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St. Paul mayor, city council clash over proposed development
‘We are doing exactly what they did in the 1960s. $1,100 for a studio is too much for this community.’
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Can the Twin Cities dodge the downside of gentrification?
Recently, there have been waves of gentrification in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Even New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are experiencing this massive trend.
Posted inOpinion
Shameful legacies, ongoing neglect
In most American cities throughout the 20th century, people of color, African Americans in particular, were relegated to separate and structurally unequal communities often by means of the practices briefly referenced above.
Posted inOpinion
Fair and affordable housing under constant threat
That particular installment of The Anti-Poverty Soldier also examined recent attempts on the part of many legislators, on both the state and national levels, to gut and perhaps even abolish this law, which was signed exactly one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Gentrification plans of MPHA and Sherman Associates
Minneapolis is in a housing crisis. As condos go up, driving up rents, thousands in the city are homeless. Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) is selling off housing that thousands rely on. New public-private partnerships to provide housing inevitably transfer funding and tax dollars for housing from the state to the pockets of landlords and […]