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  • Residents speak out about gentrification in Detroit Shoreway

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAND This map shows the Detroit Shoreway, a near-westside neighborhood that is just west of Ohio City, just east of Cudell, and just north of Clark-Fulton and Stockyard. Lacey Caporale, a recent PhD graduate in sociology from Case Western Reserve University, has done extensive research in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens of…

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  • Author shares research on displacement caused by gentrification

    by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press August 2024) On July 10th at the Rhizhome House in Cleveland Heights the Greater Cleveland Housing Collective hosted an anti-gentrification teach-in and discussion with Andrew Lee, the author of Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War.    At the workshop, Lee shared some of his experience organizing against displacement…

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  • Tremont residents should examine how to maintain a diverse neighborhood

    Tremont residents should examine how to maintain a diverse neighborhood by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, October 2022)  Tremont residents should be encouraged to participate in Ideastream’s Justin Glanville My Changing Neighborhood discussions where there is an examination of how to maintain a diverse neighborhood when gentrification is occurring.    The Tremont neighborhood could use some…

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