Posts by Melissa Chadburn
Get Stuff Fixed In Your Building! 3 Steps That Really Work & Help Stop Gentrification
Again and again, gentrification prices people out of neighborhoods and makes renters feel powerless over their circumstances. But there is one thing that can withstand gentrification: people coming together.
Read MoreNot Gonna Leave: 3 Times Neighbors Got Together To Fight Gentrification
Back in the early nineties Ma and I lived in a one bedroom apartment with crappy brown carpeting, cottage cheese ceilings, the heat thick and rising. Ma always out working while I fried up mushrooms and listened to her Diana Ross and the Supremes albums. Sometimes, the lights cut off. Back then the bills would…
Read MoreThis Shit Doesn’t Happen Overnight: The Insidious Planning That Goes Into Gentrification
Cold brews and fourteen-dollar raw juice joints and white folks everywhere; in what seems like a blink of an eye, your neighborhood has changed completely. But, despite how abrupt it can feel, gentrification doesn’t happen overnight. Gentrification happens after months, and sometimes even years, of preparation — crafted in the offices of real estate moguls…
Read More10 Heart-Wrenching Rent Crowdfunding Campaigns Brought To You By Gentrification
The word “gentrification” was coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964. In her book London: Aspects of Change, Glass described the upheaval of certain neighborhoods in London by the middle-class “gentry” from the countryside: One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class upper and lower. Once…
Read More9 Renters Rights Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You To Know
Editor’s Note: We at Everyday Feminism would like to note that this is a United States specific post and that tentants’ laws vary by state. We encourage you to check out the laws where you live to make sure you know your rights. In 2001 I went to law school evenings across the street from…
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