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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Anti-displacement"”.
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Planning for Anti-Displacement Development: An Affordable Housing Study in Central Falls
… by extension, to cause cultural and residential displacement. Concurrent to this, newly elected Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera has decided to prioritize affordable housing creation and preservation, leading a Housing Summit within her first hundred days in office and intending on developing a …
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China Dispossession Watch: Making Visible the Human Costs of Forced Land Expropriation in Urbanizing China
… that integrates ethnographic investigation, quantitative economic analysis, and practical interventions developed in collaboration with affected communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Yangtze Delta Region, including 50 in-depth interviews with dispossessed residents, the research …
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Managing neighborhood change around new transit stops : community planning over four decades in Somerville, MA
… sustainable communities while avoiding displacement and exclusion of less wealthy community members. I focus on three mass transit projects in Somerville, MA: the Red Line extension to Davis Square in the early 1980s, the addition of the Orange Line station at Assembly Square in 2014, …
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Re-Stitching the Fabric: Urban Highway Removal as anOpportunity for Equitable, Sustainable Transformation
… sustainable mode shift and resist community displacement. Given recent calls for highway removal by communities, local leaders, and the federal government, now is the time to ensure the benefits of these projects are shared by all. This thesis aims to outline a justice-oriented framework …
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The campaign for the tenant right to purchase in Greater Boston
… is ongoing. To better understand why the urban displacement crisis has not resulted in stronger legal protections for tenants, and to offer strategies for change, I analyze this campaign as an extended case study on the nature of power in state and local governance. I argue that Lukes' three …
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Cooperatives as vehicles for community and economic development : a case for alternative ownership and expansion of the solidarity economy in Austin, Texas
… in and around Austin, Texas has led to the displacement of residents, which in turn results in loss of community as well as increased traffic as most workers still need to access jobs near the city center. Increasing support for worker-owned firms and housing cooperatives could be community …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… and have enacted policies to protect them from displacement. For example, community activists have long been concerned that gentrification might drive up the housing values in a community and displace long-term incumbent residents through higher property-tax burdens. Several state and local …