Community Quote by Gordon Quinn

“This city-and-corporate-led “pro-arts” agenda runs the risk of not only driving out present art-making residents out via a combination of gate-keeping and escalating living…

— Anonymous

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

— Jim McKay

For me, the only drag about the whole thing is that a lot of my childhood friends had to be relocated to the outskirts…

— Victor Rasuk

“Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives of pointless…

— David Marusek

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

— Zawe Ashton

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change…

— Daveed Diggs

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black 'hood met black elegance met white gentrification…

— Amanda Gorman

“In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhoods” are increasingly “developments,” corporate theme…

— Tanner Colby

“Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story.…

— Jeff Chang

In my opinion, gentrification can sometimes affect what's happening on the ends. You're placing people in different places, moving them around, and you're taking…

— Ashley Walters

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

— Sarah Jeong

“The hipster narrative about gentrification isn’t necessarily inaccurate—young people are indeed moving to cities and opening craft breweries and wearing tight clothing—but it is…

— Peter Moskowitz