RACE & EVICTIONS

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After decades of racialized disinvestment through redlining and urban renewal and hard-won battles by community organizations, communities of color across New York City are now at the frontier of gentrification. Far from being a coincidence, this neighborhoods present what critical geographer calls a "Rent Gap" - a profitable discrepancy between current property values and potential future values based on city policy. Real estate developers have their eyes on the prize. Through city policies such as rezonings, these neighborhoods are being revalued overnight, paving the way for predatory speculative development and a new wave of displacement. It is within this context of "racial capitalism," embodied by longstanding racialized urban planning policies that benefit the private sector while dispossessing the poor, that we must understand gentrification and displacement today.