Gentrification is becoming one of the most talked about community issues in urban areas across the world. And while most people know it when they see it, our intent in our Gentrification 101 Community Teach-Ins is to expand our understanding of the issue and increase awareness of what activists, organizations, and governments across the world are doing to fight it.

While the content of each teach-in will vary depending on participants and time, we will reference the following material that we ask participants to review prior to attending.

I. Defining "Gentrification"

• Prof. Winifred Curran defines Gentrification:

• UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project's "Gentrification Explained":

II. Global & Structural Context

• Prof. Neil Smith's Rent Gap: Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, Not People (pdf)
• Prof. David Harvey's Right to the City (pdf)
• Prof. Neil Smith's New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy (pdf)
• Prof. Tom Slater's Missing Marcuse: On Gentrification and Displacement (pdf)
• The Housing Crisis Is Not Inevitable (Jacobin Magazine)
• Gentrification Doesn't Trickle Down to Help Everyone (The Guardian)

III. National Black American Historical Context

• From Post-Slavery to Modern Day: The Case for Reparations by Ta-nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
• The Widening Racial Wealth Divide (The New Yorker)
• Without the Family Car Black Wealth Barely Exists - People's Policy Project
• The Myth of Black Buying Power by Prof. Jared Ball
• Redlining - Mapping Inequality
• How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality (New York Times)

IV. Current National Context

• Wall Street, America's New Landlord, Kicks Tenants to the Curb (Bloomberg)
• Lecturers Desiree Fields, Alex Shafran & Zac Taylor's Wall Street is now America's biggest landlord. What does that mean for the American Dream?
• Investors Purchased the Majority of Affordable Homes in 2017 - Center of New York City Neighborhoods
• Special Report: Investor Home Buying - CoreLogic
• Want to Buy a House Like This? Prepare for a Bidding War with Investors (New York Times)
• Richard Florida's ‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality on Prof. Michael Storper & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Study (pdf)
• Developers Aren't Going to Solve the Housing Crisis in San Francisco - people.power.media. (Truthout)
• Five Myths Accelerating LA's Race to the Bottom (CityWatchLA)
• Airbnb As a Racial Gentrification Tool - Inside AirBnB (pdf)

V. Modern-Day Gentrification Conflict

• Role of Policing
  • New Neighbors and the Over-Policing of Communities of Color - Community Service Society
  • Death by Gentrification: The Killing that Shamed San Francisco (The Guardian)
  • The Gentrification to Prison Pipeline (Truthout)
  • The Echo Park Gang Injunction - Youth Justice Coalition (pdf)
• Defend Boyle Heights

VI. Alternative Economic Development Models: Democratic Economy/Community Wealth Building

• Democracy Collaborative's Two Approaches to Economic Development (pdf)

• Social Housing in the United States:
  • People's Policy Project: Social Housing in the United States (pdf)
  • We Can Have Beautiful Social Housing (Jacobin Magazine)
  • Prof. Peter Dreier's Why America Needs More Social Housing (American Prospect)
• Development without Displacement - Just Cause:Causa Justa (Executive Summary pdf)
• Community Land Trusts

• • Burlington Community Land Trust
  • Dudley Neighborhood Land Trust
• Will Limited-Equity Cooperatives Make A Comeback? (Shelterforce)
• Worker-Owned Cooperatives
  • Cooperation Jackson
• Community Development Initial Public Offering (Stanford Social Innovation Review & Shelterforce)

VII. Housing Justice Advocacy & Reporting

• Los Angeles Tenants Union
• Homes Guarantee
• Right to the City Alliance
• Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
• UCLA's Institute on Inequality & Democracy
• Jacobin Magazine
• 48hills.org