1.) Anderson, A. (2001). Race, Poverty & the Environment. Gentrification , 30.
This article describes the effects of gentrification in the bay area. Specifically in the bay area, people in poverty have been massively hit by the countering effects. The article shows the percentages of how many businesses and residents have been displaced. However, the article was a useful tool, as it guides the reader to a better conclusive result that confronts their questions and concerns about gentrification.
2.) Goetz, E. (2011). Urban studies. Gentrification in black and white: the racial impact of public housing demolition in American cities, 48(8), 1581-1604.
‘The gentrification that has transformed high-poverty neighbourhoods in US cities since the mid 1990s has been characterised by high levels of state reinvestment. Prominent among public-sector interventions has been the demolition of public housing and in some cases multimillion dollar redevelopment efforts. In this paper, the racial dimension of state-supported gentrification in large US cities is examined by looking at the direct and indirect displacement induced by public housing transformation.’
3.)Watson, R. (2017). This side of home. New York: Bloomsbury.
This book is relatable, giving the reader a brief view into what its like to be a victim of gentrification, whether you are the rich person moving into the up and coming neighborhood or the displaced resident. ‘Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new–white–family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted– (Source of description not identified).’