How Gentrification Is Destroying America’s Cities (Audio and Transcript)

BLANK Jun 16, 2017 In a new episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and author Peter Moskowitz discuss gentrification, poverty and the concept of housing as a human right. Transcript added. Dig deeper ( 23 Min. Read )

Snapchat’s Hometown Protests Company’s Presence

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2017 Snap Inc. just had a profitable first day trading on the stock market, but one Southern California neighborhood is fighting the gentrification that comes with hosting a tech giant. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Feyisa Lilesa, Ethiopian Silver Medalist and Protester

BLANK Aug 28, 2016 The runner risked death or exile when he finished the men's marathon with arms crossed in defiance of Ethiopia’s abuse of his tribe, the Oromo. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Washington, D.C., Trash Is Not Minorities’ Treasure

Clara Romeo / Truthdig Jun 4, 2016 While garbage from newly gentrified neighborhoods in the nation’s capital gets removed, disenfranchised communities suffer the consequences of hazardous waste management. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

So You Want to Ditch Your Landlord

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2015 “Real estate as a store of private wealth is the rotten tree that sprouts [the] diseased branches” of homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, gentrification and dangerous housing bubbles, writes Jesse A. Meyerson at The Nation. “[T]he solution is to quit pruning twigs and chop the sucker down.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is ‘Gentrification’s Ground Zero’

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Aug 28, 2015 In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans' low-income black residents have been displaced, with gentrification entailing a dramatic transformation of the city's class structure and cultural identity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Seattleite Tells How Amazon ‘Swallowed’ His Town

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 19, 2015 Recent news about Amazon has focused on the abusive conditions that prevail in the company's headquarters in Seattle. A “more comprehensive indictment,” writes a lifelong resident of the city, would “describe its effect on” the city, “which used to be a great place to live." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Tech Workers Try to Take a Playground From Community Kids and Lose

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 17, 2014 When a group of tech workers from Dropbox tried to evict a group of youngsters from a community soccer field in San Francisco's Mission district, they probably weren't expecting to trigger a mini Occupy movement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Revolution Will Be Gentrified

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Chronically Homeless Numbers Down 30%, U.S. Claims

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2008 In the face of a U.S. housing crisis and a troubled economy, Bush administration officials claim that the past two years have seen a 30 percent drop in the levels of chronically homeless people, crediting the decrease to a strategy of finding permanent shelter for the long-ignored disabled and addicted. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )