INMI 1802 — Gentrification and Strategies of Community Preservation
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SI
Delves into effective strategies employed by communities and city planners to mitigate the adverse impacts of gentrification. Explores the root causes and repercussions of gentrification, along with community-driven solutions and policy interventions. Focuses on the city of Oakland, emphasizing the intersection of race and the contentious relationship between gentrification and displacement. Addresses various forms of stratification associated with gentrification including class inequality, escalating housing costs, homelessness, and their interconnectedness with market forces and urban planning. Scrutinizes Oakland's decline and redevelopment within a broader structural context, contextualizing its gentrification process in relation to analogous trends observed in numerous cities across the United States and globally. Accentuates entrepreneurial approaches to addressing these issues.