The Land Rush
Haitian migrants fled a violent dictatorship and built a new community in Miami’s Little Haiti, far from the coast and on land that luxury developers ...
Buying into Black
Valencia Gunder used to dismiss her grandfather’s warnings: “They’re gonna steal our communities because it don't flood.” She thought, Who would want ...
Premium Elevation
In Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, residents are feeling a push from the familiar forces of gentrification: hasty evictions, new developments, risi...
From The Neighborhood to The Stakes
From host Kai Wright and the team that brought you There Goes The Neighborhood, a new show about what's not working about our society, how we can do b...
Introducing ‘Caught’: Our New Podcast
America incarcerates more people than any country in the world. It starts with kids. On any given night, roughly 53,000 young people are in some form ...
Shackled to the Market
There are lots of ideas out there to address L.A.’s housing crisis. But many proposed solutions bring their own problems. This week we explore some of...
Gentrification: No More L.A. Traffic, Put It That Way
In the last decade, Los Angeles lost 250,000 people at or near the poverty line, and saw a net gain of 20,000 people with college degrees. Will Los An...
Coffee, Pizza and Beer
Gentrification isn’t just about who’s moving into the neighborhood. It’s about juice bars, yoga studios, fancy pizza and of course coffee shops. What’...
Change the Name of the Arts District to the Luxury District
Are artists victims of gentrification? Or the perpetrators of it? Artists move into empty post-industrial spaces and poor neighborhoods, save on rent,...
They Want My House
Once you know what to look for, they're everywhere. In mostly Latino and black neighborhoods, rows of aging houses with wrought-iron fences, their yar...