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What You Don’t Know Can’t TIF You

Pretend something isn’t a problem and it goes away, right?

September 29, 2022 • by Pat Garofalo

TIFs date back to the 1950s, and every state except Arizona has them in one form or another. There are thousands upon thousands of TIF districts all across the country. Chances are decent you’ve heard about one in your local area....

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

Conceptualizing Gentrification Today

February 6, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

In first segment in this five-part series, Stefano Rumi suggested that gentrification has mutated into a remarkably consistent and replicable phenomenon of urban development in diverse cities across the world. In the second segment, below, Rumi further explores this new form of gentrification, entitled “third-wave gentrification,” and its inequitable effects ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I

Re-contextualizing urban renewal

February 5, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

In an essay published in five parts, Stefano Rumi, a student in Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power course at University of Virginia, will lay out a critique of gentrification, identify its ideological underpinnings, and analyze what it would take to produce an alternative. Below is the introduction. “There is no alternative.” ...