How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

by P.E. Moskowitz

Gentrification is not about individual acts; it’s about systemic violence based on decades of racist housing policy in the United States

Gentrification is a purposeful act, not just a trend, and so it needs a definition that recognizes the actors and actions behind it. Gentrification, at its deepest level, is really about reorienting the purpose of cities away from being spaces that provide for the poor and middle classes and toward being spaces that generate capital for the rich.

predictable effects of turning cities into spaces that benefit no one but those who control capital.

locational seesaw—is

back-to-the-city movement by capital rather than people.”