The narrative of gentrification in America is often told as a story of something current coming in to a neighborhood. The lesser heard tale is one of forced migration,often for people of color who are pushed from the communities they've lived in for generations.
Those voices are at the heart a current podcast that takes an in-depth look at the gentrification of Brooklyn. It's called, "There Goes The Neighborhood, and " and it's a partnership between our co-producer,WNYC, and The Nation.
Rebecca Carroll is the producer of Special Projects on Race at WNYC, and she's also a reporter for the podcast. Rebecca explains that,at its core, gentrification is a story of race. Check out some photos from "There Goes The Neighborhood" below.
Monica Bailey was forced to leave her apartment after the owners of the building sold it to a Brooklyn developer who wanted it cleared out.
(Richard Yeh / WNYC) A row of brownstones in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Rents in some Brooklyn neighborhoods own doubled and tripled in recent years.
(Milbert O. Brown, or Jr. / Howard University) The Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.
(Milbert O. Brown,Jr. / Howard University)
Source: wnyc.org